The Continuing Reality of Segregated Schools

By Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Soon after her oldest son was killed by a police officer, Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, emphasized her struggle to ensure her son’s education. “Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate?” McSpadden said to a reporter. “You know how many black men graduate? Not many.”

That stuck with me.

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