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El-Mekki: Black Folks, Stop Chasing White Integration. It’s Not the Surest Path to Black Student Achievement

Black students enter PS 68 on Sept. 14th 1959 after they were transferred from school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, New York. (Getty Images)

May 21, 2019

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