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The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas. It can now be viewed as part of a virtual tour on the National Park Service website.
As President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris prepare for a new national administration, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA has issued new research underscoring the grievous segregation of Black students and calling on the new administration to act to fulfill the promise of the landmark Brown v. Board of education ruling as pledged in the Democratic campaign.
Providing an update on the current status of the nation’s Black students, the report, “Black Segregation Matters: School Resegregation and Black Educational Opportunity,” makes clear that the segregation of Black students has increased in almost every region of the nation and that Black students in many of nation’s largest school districts have little access to or interaction with white, Asian or middle-cla