No official offer of admission has yet arrived.Nikole Hannah-Jones covered civil rights and fair housing for ProPublica. They said that’s why the region needs a coastal barrier system.“Hurricanes are devastating meteorological events, and when they hit … they will cause massive impact all over the Gulf Coast,” said Craig Beskid, executive director of the East Harris County Manufacturers Association, which represents ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and other major companies that operate 130 facilities in the area.“Our facilities will be impacted. Set up full-text search with a wizard. It's home to the nation's largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored. Schools in the South, once the most segregated in the country, had by the 1970s become the most integrated, largely as a result of federal court orders. It’s got its jocks, its nerds, its mean girls and band geeks. Bush said, “You and me may not even see the completion of this project in our lifetime.”It’s already been eight years since Ike and Houston gets hit by a major storm “We’re sitting ducks. Make your gift of any amount today and join the tens of thousands of ProPublicans across the country, standing up for the power of independent journalism to produce real, lasting change. It was a Wednesday-night supper and no one would sit with me, because I voted with the black members. Then a friend in emergency management told him, “you need to leave, because your life is going to be in jeopardy.”Nugent lives just blocks from Clear Lake, a narrow body of water that feeds into Galveston Bay. The Supreme Court had been right in striking down legal segregation, McFadden said. A recent audit of Central had found that 80 percent of students were not on the college track. The indexing process will take longer when enabling Qsirch for the first time or when a lot of NAS files are added/removed.Simply choose categories, enter keywords, and the related files will be immediately displayed.Use “Include” and “Exclude” to streamline search results. And he never disputed that integration had brought real academic benefits. “As such, our preference is not to provide more specifics for the Vopak Terminal Deer Park.”Several companies referred any questions about storm preparedness to the Texas Chemical Council, which represents most of the 150 chemical manufacturing plants in the Houston area.“Chemical manufacturing plants along the Texas Gulf Coast are inherently designed and engineered to withstand hurricanes and other events, utilizing hardened equipment, as well as dikes and levees to provide added protection from storm water and containment in the event of a spill,” the council wrote in a statement.Hector Rivero, the council’s president and CEO, argued that when it comes to the most serious risks posed by a hurricane, the focus should be on schools and neighborhoods.
A New York Times reporter covering civil rights in the 1950s described Tuscaloosa as a “clean, prosperous city that has long been proud of its good race relations.”And yet, of course, the phrase good race relations was misleading: the city operated under the dictates of Jim Crow until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “They haven’t grown up with hurricanes. “All my friends were talking about college and wanting to do better,” she said.
The day of the interview, the story had broken nationally that England’s step-granddaughter had been snubbed by the white sororities at the University of Alabama—among the nation’s last remaining segregated Greek systems. According to an analysis by ProPublica, the number of apartheid schools nationwide has mushroomed from 2,762 in 1988—the peak of school integration—to 6,727 in 2011.When school officials make decisions that funnel poor children of color into their own schools, they promise to make those separate schools equal. Emotions were raw. “I’d be so embarrassed, I’d try to play hooky.”By the time he started his freshman year in high school, in 1964, a full decade after Brown, just 2.3 percent of the nearly 3 million school-aged black children in the old Confederate South attended school alongside white children.