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The New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Defense Fund released a report outlining how historical injustices and systemic policies have exacerbated the racial wealth gap and segregation in New York State. The report supports calls for reparations amid stalled official action.

A proposed scholarship tax-credit program in Michigan would divert public funds to private education, reducing accountability and deepening educational inequities. The article argues that public schools serve all students regardless of background, while private schools lack the same obligations and transparency. Critics warn the program perpetuates segregation and undermines public education.

A new book by Nicole Carr, 'The Price of Exclusion,' examines how Black physicians established medical facilities in the South a century ago, only to have them dismantled by policy, segregation, and an influential report, with ongoing consequences today.

Harvard University professor Robert Coles, a psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who focused on children in poverty and segregation, died at age 97. The article also references high-intensity transcranial... (incomplete information).