Desegregation Wasn’t a Historical Wrong. It Was a Necessary Intervention We’re Now Erasing

May 3, 2025

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly closed the book on one of Louisiana’s longest-standing school desegregation orders—first issued in 1966 to Plaquemines Parish, a place whose history of racial exclusion was once so notorious it had a name: Leander Perez. The DOJ framed the decision as “correcting a historical wrong.” But let’s call […]


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