OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — African-American students were given preferential treatment in admissions to the University of Oklahoma despite lower average test scores than white students, according to a study released Oct. 22 by a conservative think-tank.
For decades, American schools have strived to integrate and equalize educational opportunities in an ever-changing, multiracial society. But a new report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project analyzing segregation trends in the nation’s public schools shows “persistent and serious increases in segregation by race and poverty,” especially in the South and West where students of color now comprise the majority of public school enrollment.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany opened a long-awaited memorial October 23, to the hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, or Roma, who were killed by the Nazis in what one survivor called "the forgotten Holocaust" — and pledged to fight the discrimination the minority still faces in Europe today.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, died of renal failure in a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday night, the ruling party said Monday.
The African National Congress described Kumalo as a "rare and significant talent that was pivotal in raising social consciousness and exposing the brutality of the apartheid administration."
He was 82.
