Anthony Gentry-McElroy

mpdrolet: Helge Skodvin

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:09 -0400

Helge Skodvin

audiovision: Chinese photographer Ziang Xiao photographs...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:23:05 -0400

Chinese photographer Ziang Xiao photographs strange moments on the Chinese coast.

See more images of the infamous face-kini that took the Chinese coast by storm last summer on NPR’s The Two Way.

unhistorical: May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:54 -0400

unhistorical:

May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.

Fifty-nine years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a landmark case that the segregation of public schools was prohibited under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; newly-appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the opinion:

Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group…. We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The doctrine of “separate but equal” as justification for racial segregation emerged in the United States in the 1890s and was upheld in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court ruled that states could enact racial segregation laws; in the South, this legitimized the dismantlement of Reconstruction Era reform and the South’s enactment of Jim Crow laws. Many states in the North/members of the Union during the Civil War also maintained racially segregated schools — it was the policy of the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that Oliver L. Brown and twelve other plaintiffs sought to challenge, after all. At the time, the Board’s policy permitted Topeka’s school districts to segregate their elementary and middle schools. Under the direction of the NAACP, each of the plaintiffs enrolled their children in local all-white schools and, when their children were refused enrollment, filed a class action suit in the District Court of Kansas, which subsequently ruled in favor of the Board. This decision took place in 1951.

The case that was heard by the Supreme Court in 1953 was a combination of five similar cases (all backed by the NAACP), including Brown v. Board, which lent the Supreme Court case its name. After much deliberation, including a request to rehear the case after the court failed to reach a decision the first time, the Warren Court banned (in a unanimous decision) the segregation of public schools. The justices were divided on how Brown could be enforced and on the issue of judicial activism versus restraint, though Warren pushed for unanimity to further legitimize the decision and prevent Southern resistance (it did not). Although Brown was a key decision and the first step toward the end of de jure segregation, the path to desegregation was long and rocky; Topeka desegregated its elementary schools within two years, but resistance in the South against the court’s decision and against desegregation was inexorable, resulting in incidents such as the Little Rock Crisis and other manifestations of what Virginian politicians dubbed “massive resistance”.

leslieseuffert: Linnea Strid

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:19:18 -0400

leslieseuffert:

Linnea Strid

mijonju: The Mijonju Show - Mamiya M645 (by Mijonju)

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:15:16 -0400

mijonju:

The Mijonju Show - Mamiya M645 (by Mijonju)

leslieseuffert: Koen Lybaert

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:13:37 -0400

leslieseuffert:

Koen Lybaert

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Fri, 17 May 2013 00:09:57 -0400

mondoholic: Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat By the Ocean (Live...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:24:55 -0400

mondoholic:

Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat By the Ocean (Live at Later… with Jools Holland)

machine-gun-silhouette: So I just couldn’t resist and I’m listening to …Like Clockwork right now....

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:17:02 -0400

machine-gun-silhouette:

So I just couldn’t resist and I’m listening to …Like Clockwork right now. Current emotion state:

highest hopes none standing still the running joke: Don’t look, just keep your eyes peeledThoughtless, traipsing my minds...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:16:34 -0400

highest hopes none standing still the running joke: Don’t look, just keep your eyes peeledThoughtless, traipsing my minds...:

giorgiocarraway:

Don’t look, just keep your eyes peeled
Thoughtless, traipsing my minds field
Shotgun, never behind the wheel anymore
Danger, monsters of smoke & mirror
Slowly, can one so lost be found?

& I know. You will never believe
I play this as though I’m alright
If life is but a dream, then
Wake me up.

As I go down the drain, I appear missing now.

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:09:52 -0400

As I go down the drain, I appear missing now.

gingerbeardsandparenteaus: The story so far…

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:04:53 -0400

gingerbeardsandparenteaus:

The story so far…

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Thu, 16 May 2013 03:04:00 -0400

timeless-hand: I Appear Missing.

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:03:33 -0400

timeless-hand:

I Appear Missing.

smugsbunny: Kalopsia // Queens of the Stone Age // …Like...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:02:47 -0400

smugsbunny:

Kalopsia // Queens of the Stone Age // …Like Clockwork

I never lie
To myself
Tonight

Rose, tainted eyes
Colour my sorrow
A shade of why

noods: from {x} and {x}

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:56:04 -0400

noods:

from {x} and {x}

sylviaplth: the fact that kids feel physically ill and have mental breakdowns at the very idea of...

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:29:20 -0400

sylviaplth:

the fact that kids feel physically ill and have mental breakdowns at the very idea of going to school should be a clue to some people that maybe something isnt fucking right

lucy-ripper: Battlefield 4

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:20:38 -0400

lucy-ripper:

Battlefield 4

eatsleepdraw: Molten Wax- It’s All In The Eyes

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:20:01 -0400

eatsleepdraw:

Molten Wax- It’s All In The Eyes

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Thu, 16 May 2013 02:19:54 -0400