This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Joe Biden’s opposition to busing for school desegregation in the 1970s reveals how white liberalism played a central role in ...

Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wrote a 31-page paper on busing and segregation as a law student in 1975, and Mediaite has obtained the full article. The ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Popularized by U.S. Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to today, the de facto segregation myth has been adopted by conventional opinion, liberal and conservative alike. Contrary to popular belief ...