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A crusading jurist ostracized in his native New Orleans for his support of civil rights, Wright ruled in June 1967 that school officials presided over a resegregated system that unconstitutionally deprived Washington’s poor and black students of their “right to equal educational opportunity.” In a scathing 118-page decision, he condemned the system’s neighborhood school policy, which helped maintain racially and economically segregated schools that “damage the minds and spirit of all children who attend them.”
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Neurath was one of the original targets of Mises’s 1920 broadside against planning. He is remembered today as the theorist of total planning—a phrase that incorrectly conjures the image of social engineers running the economy from a control room. Nothing could be further from Neurath’s vision. On the contrary, Neurath argued that a socialist economy would have to be highly democratic—precisely because it could not be purely algorithmic.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
Some 85 percent of the aggregate decline in the urban Black population happened within census tracts that did not gentrify. The Black households that left for the suburbs, moreover, tended to be higher income than those left behind.
What’s Causing Black Flight?
theatlantic.com
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