Operation Exodus News Today

Talks about the Garisson decision of the Supreme Court that ordered desegregation in Boston and the busing crisis that followed, studying what happened and its legacy.

For many in Boston, the story of “busing” begins in September 1974 with the explosive clash over mandatory desegregation of the city’s public schools. In the barrage of electrifying news reports, with angry white faces and violent attacks on busloads of Black students in South Boston, the word assumed a charge of its own, evoking white resistance to the dictates of a federal

The year 2024 marks fifty years since a federal court order was issued by US Judge W. Arthur Garrity mandating school desegregation in Boston which resulted in busing.

The Mother City recorded 36,000 speeding offences in a week, and issued almost 24,000 fines for various traffic violations.

In 2023, American Experience partnered with StoryCorps Studios to record, uplift and archive stories about racial desegregation and educational equity efforts in American schools. These personal accounts reflect experiences from an array of regional, racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives, providing a link to a formative chapter in the story of modern America. These stories you are about to listen to are unedited accounts of those experiences.

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Mayor Benjamin Magalong has urged Filipinos to always remember the lessons of the Mamasapano incident, and at the same time underscored the key takeaways of the Mamasapano incident.

The City’s enforcement services made 369 arrests in the past week – nearly a quarter for drunk driving – and issued 63 074 fines.

It said that 369 drunk drivers had been arrested and 63,074 fines were issued for various crimes over the past week.

Ray Hilchey of Halifax died on May 9, 1945, helping repatriate prisoners of war in France. His parents learned of his death four days later, which also happened to be Mother's Day.