Judge instructs school to comply with 1970 desegregation order, and more
The school board of Walthall County, Miss., has allowed white students at predominantly black schools to transfer out.
Judge instructs school to comply with 1970 desegregation order
A federal judge has ordered school officials in Walthall County, Miss., to stop segregating students by race. Judge Tom Lee said the school board has allowed white students at predominantly black schools to transfer out, and assigned those who remain to the same classroom, “resulting in significant numbers of segregated all-black classrooms.” Lee ordered the county to comply with a desegregation order first issued in 1970.
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A Florida man is being sued over a negative review he left on eBay, the auction website. Michael Steadman, 49, says the $44 clock he bought from Elliot Miller arrived in three pieces, so he called Miller a “bad seller” on the site. Miller is now suing for defamation, claiming he offered the clock “as is.”
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