In South Africa, apartheid caused people to lose their jobs, their homes and sometimes their lives. In the United States, it led to calls for complete separation from South African relations. Read more...

Demographics cause segregation I am astonished Ilana Fried’s column, “Desegregation success isn’t black and white” (May 13), refers to the minority predominance in Los Angeles schools as “segregation.” Gee, how can it be possible that in a state where almost half the population is Latino there are schools consisting of a predominantly Latino student population? Read more...

The Supreme Court ruled 50 years ago that segregation in schools could not be tolerated ““ “separate but equal” amounted to institutionalized racism. Since then, state and federal agencies have made tremendous efforts to make access to education universal and equal. Read more...