School segregation in the USA
Nikole Hannah-Jones dissects the renewed controversy about “busing” in the effort to break apart America’s educational caste system:
I was one of those kids bused to white schools… Starting in second grade and all the way through high school, I rode a bus two hours a day. It was not easy, but I am perplexed by the audacity of people who argue that the hardship of a long bus ride somehow outweighs the hardship of being deprived of a good education.
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