Segregation and Desegregation
After 246 Years, Marine Corps Gives 4 Stars to a Black Officer
WASHINGTON — In the military, there have already been countless promotion ceremonies this year, held on army bases, aircraft carriers and even, in one case, an escarpment overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy. But on Saturday there was one for the history books. Gen. Michael E. Langley, 60, became the first Black Marine to receive a […]
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The Abortion Decision, Haunted by Brown v. Board of Education
WASHINGTON — In the Supreme Court decision that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the justices engaged in an extended debate over the meaning and legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that said the Constitution does not permit racial segregation in public schools. The connection between abortion and education may seem […]
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After Abortion, Republicans Are Targeting the Right to Travel
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it did more than just supercharge the assault on the right to have an abortion. It also opened up a corresponding attack on the right to travel. That attack is a straightforward consequence of giving states the power to ban abortion. An abortion ban in Ohio, for […]
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The Time Archbishop Tutu Was Searched at the Airport
Alan Cowell was the South Africa bureau chief for The New York Times from 1983 to 1987, when the apartheid government expelled him from the country. At Johannesburg’s main airport, around 400 people were preparing to board flights for Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. Nearly all of them filed past the security scanners without incident […]
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Minneapolis’ School Plan Asks White Families to Help Integrate
But Ms. Jackson couldn’t help but ask: Why now? To her, some changes, like the planned renovation, signaled gentrification. Even as North High opened up to white families, some Black families, like hers, were reassigned to a different school, though North’s low enrollment meant that, for now, they could apply to stay. “I feel like […]
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