Kiln, Mississippi Peter Drier, comrade, housing expert, and professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, made an interesting point in a piece he wrote recently about segregation. Reflecting on Ferguson, Missouri, although it could have been hundreds of places he wrote: Sociologists have invented a way to measure segregation called the “index of dissimilarity,” which …
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A Diversity Garden Comes to Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans
New Orleans Fifty years ago, the Class of 1966 entered Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans in the fall of 1963, not unlike tens of thousands of others entering their public high schools in cities and towns all over the United States, all of whom hoped undoubtedly they were special in some personal way, …