It happened. The Supreme Court ruled that two cities - Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington - cannot use race in trying to achieve integration in public schools. The Court essentially said that forcing children to attend schools on the basis of skin color is a violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause, but the conservative majority overlooks how children are unable to integrate in any forum other than the public school system, because circumstances that allow racism to flourish - an unequal allotment of resources for different schools, segregated neighborhoods - are still well in place.
Some good news came through the wire today: The bald eagle, America's national symbol, is off the endangered species list after over sixty years of preservation efforts. The bald eagle went from four hundred mating pairs in 1963 to 10,000 today.
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