I do not have any social media accounts, but I enjoyed listening to Jonathan Van Ness’s “How does the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow Laws Affect the US today?” interviewing Deborah Archer, a NYU professor of Law who teaches in Civil Rights Law and runs the center of Race and Equality in the Law. (Feb 19, 2020).

The part that really stuck with me, and one for which I’d make an infographic were I to post on Social media, was her comment about Brown V Board of education and how segregation in schools persisted despite Brown v Board: “Brown was a first step in dismantling our segregation regime. But what continues today is this notion that there are white spaces and that the law should protect white spaces and the, what white people view as their privilege to control those spaces. So we see that still in public education here in New York City, one of those segregated school systems in the country, and at the same time, one of the most integrated cities in the country, we have intense segregation in our public schools. You see that protecting white space.” I would locate, in my local school system, the two schools that seem to be most segregated, show the differences in tax value of the homes, test scores, etc. And ask students to answer the question, is separate equal? How has Brown v Board been undermined?