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"Saturday is the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case where a unanimous Supreme Court held that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The following year the justices ordered that states end school segregation with "all deliberate speed."

In the popular narrative, this is the beginning of American integration, a process that goes from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King to the Civil Rights Act and eventually to President Obama.

But for as much as we share an integrated culture, millions of Americans—and blacks in particular—live in segregated worlds, a fact illustrated by the persistence and retrenchment of school segregation, as detailed in a new report from the Civil Rights Project at the University of California--Los Angeles."* Ana Kasparian, Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) and Desi Doyen (Green News Report) break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
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