Imagining How to End America's Racial Dilemma
April 11, 2021
We know that children's life chances are overwhelmingly dependent on the income and education of their parents. Over 65 years after the Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board, black children are as segregated from white students as they were in the mid-1970s.
Host Jim Vrettos discusses this topic with guests Edmond "Buddy" Noel Jr. and Joel Allen, M.D.
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