Anti-Discrimination Center

"Perspective" column in the Westchester Journal News from ADC's Executive Director discussing the ways that Westchester manifests its contempt towards the consent decree it is legally obligated to obey, and the national significance of how that course of conduct is dealt with.

Writing in The Nation, Patterson describes residential segregation as the "crucial source" of the still persisting "exclusion of blacks from the private sphere of American life."  "Nowhere," he writes, "is the paradox of public integration and private exclusion better reflected than in the fact that America's most segregated places are its most liberal metropolitan areas, where blacks play major roles in public life."

Jon Meacham, Newsweek editor, responds to Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell's celebration of the traitors who rent the Union and sought to preserve slavery, a/k/a the Confederacy.   

A rising trend in school segregation brings statistics back on par with the late 1960s, when many schools were still resisting integration as required by Brown v. Board of Education.