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Origin The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was a landmark in civil rights history, as the court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine that had enabled racial segregation in public facilities for decades. Most notably, the Brown ruling ended the practice of racial segregation in public schools in law, at least, if not immediately in practice. Some states followed the legal ruling and desegregated their public schools, but in others school administrators and government officials remained defiant. In one of the most renowned cases, James Meredith had to pursue a lawsuit against the state of Mississippi up to the Supreme Court in order to secure admission to the all-white University of Mississippi, while the state’s governor, Ross Barnett, refused to accept his enrollment. Likewise, in 1963 Georgia governor George Wallace famously blocked the doorway of the University of Alabama in a defiant attempt to prevent two B ....
when reforming the grid The catastrophic mismanagement of our electric grid in February was the most devastating event that I have experienced in my 45 years here. I couldn’t believe it was possible to lose electricity for 77 hours in the U.S. As Asher Price noted, the hearings and media coverage revealed a deep information gap between utility board rooms, state grid control rooms and Texans in their darkened living rooms. Our lawmakers have to be transparent about their plans to address the short- and long-term crises. The short term to winterize the grid with adequate funding and management of the power grid that puts Texans in the center and not the regulators in control rooms. ....
Texas Grid Operator to Be Investigated by Congressional Subcommittee Texas costliest natural disaster will be the subject of a congressional investigation by a House Oversight subcommittee thanks to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who is concerned about ERCOT s lack of preparation for extreme winter weather. March 7, 2021, 11am PST | Irvin Dawid Share Winter storm 2021, as The Texas Tribune has dubbed it, which killed dozens around the state, is expected to be the costliest natural disaster in Texas history, even costlier than Hurricane Harvey, which inflicted $125 billion in damage, writes Bryan Mena, the D.C. reporting fellow for The Texas Tribune, on March 3. It is still too early to tally the total cost of the destruction. ....
Faster driving, more traffic deaths in pandemic year; disparities in vaccine access favor the wealthy: Live COVID-19 updates John Bacon, Jorge L. Ortiz and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY When family members can t stand by dying COVID-19 patient s side, nurses step in Replay Video The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday delayed a release of coronavirus guidelines designed to ease restrictions for fully vaccinated Americans. The agency’s guidelines were expected to align with comments made this week by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who suggested small gatherings indoors among vaccinated people were probably safe. The relative risk is so low that you would not have to wear a mask, that you could have a good social gathering within the home, Fauci said at a White House task force briefing Monday. ....