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The Great Divide
This four-part series reveals that education in Pennsylvania and New Jersey is overwhelmingly not diverse despite 50 years of supposed desegregation. Economic factors often lead to racial segregation, but research shows that "white flight" causes suburban areas to be just as separated as big cities. The private schooling option also steals many white students from public schools. One school district attempts to prove that with effort almost perfect racial balance can be achieved.
Tags: Brown v. Board of Education; school; diversity; minority; black; African American; integration; equal; education; race; segregation; NAACP; white flight; Jim Crow
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Sectional Politics
National Journal investigates the impact of domestic migration on American politics. The story reveals that Americans are choosing places that appeal to their cultural preferences, according to census data. Migrants are forming distinctive political entities, especially in the fast growing parts of the country like the Deep South, Rocky Mountain West and Pacific Northwest, the Journal reports. Surveys have shown that natives often denigrate migrants, but in fact newcomers' values are close to those of long-time residents. The article sheds light on the so-called "white flight," a trend that describes the inclination of many whites to leave high-immigration metropolises in search of white suburbia.
Tags: Forsyth County; Republicans; conservative; minorities; immigration; job seekers; blacks; urban development; growth; community; race; ethnicity
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Sacred ground
When other white churches feld to the suburbs, Tabernacle Presbyterian stayed put. Indianapolis Monthly asked the question: Is the church a beacon of hope or an anachronishm?
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A Question of Color: Thirty years after 'The Dream'
The Akron Beacon Journal reports that "Many whites are tired of hearing about it. Most blacks wish it would go away. All seem powerless to move it. Thirty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described his dream of a colorblind America, race seems as huge and divisive a force as ever... We selected five areas where differences between blacks and whites in our community could be measured - overall attitudes, housing, education, economics and crime."
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Loosening poverty's grasp
The Plain Dealer looked at a six-square-mile Cleveland area that had been promised about $90 million from the federal Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community program, created by Clinton in 1993. A Plain Dealer review of decades of census data, recent vital statistics, property records, deeds and business records shows the severity of the damage done to the neighborhoods when jobs, businesses and social programs left.
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New York Times Magazine tells the story of Proviso West, a school in Chicago which was once first-rate; describes the negative effects of white-flight, maintenance needs, patronage hiring and falling standards, May 29, 1994.
Tags: IL Bissinger 12 pages
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Navy jet feints at USSR told
San Diego Union reports on secret Navy program of mock bombing attacks against a Soviet coastal city, apparently as a response to Soviet flights near the coast of Alaska; bombers may have been armed, unknown to the White House or Pentagon; the mock attacks were conducted without the knowledge or permission of the White House or the Defense Department, Nov. 22, 1987.
Tags: Burgess Navy foreign Aleutian Islands policy AK Petrapavlovsk