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• NYT publisher again defends removal of Abramson
• 6 Shocking Facts About Public School Segregation
• Attorney general says racial equality threatened in subtle ways

NYT publisher again defends removal of Abramson Posted: 17 May 2014 05:02 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. provided a fresh defense Saturday of his removal of executive editor Jill Abramson, saying it had nothing to do with his company's treatment of women but with Abramson's management style.

6 Shocking Facts About Public School Segregation Posted: 17 May 2014 08:43 AM PDT Back in 1953, a nine-year-old black girl named Linda Brown was blocked from enrolling in all-white Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kan. Her family sued the Topeka Board of Education, and sixty years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down their decision in the now historic case Brown v. Board of Education. Here are six shocking facts about modern segregation that should spur us into taking a hard look at what's happening in our public schools.

Attorney general says racial equality threatened in subtle ways Posted: 17 May 2014 07:46 AM PDT (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Saturday while public utterances of bigotry are roundly condemned in the United States racial discrimination persists in more subtle ways. Speaking on the 60th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, Holder said that public outrage over recent instances of bigoted remarks by well-known people did not mean the struggle for civil rights is over. They cut deeper," he said in a prepared commencement address at Morgan State University in Baltimore. "... We ought not find contentment in the fact that these high-profile expressions of outright bigotry seem atypical and were met with such swift condemnation." Holder, the nation's first African-American attorney general, didn't mention a specific case but racist comments by the owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, that were made public last month received substantial media attention and were widely condemned by the league, players, public officials and on social media.

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