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It was 62 years ago this week thathe Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. But it never went away. A study ordered by Congress Found the percentage of highpoverty schools with mostly black or hispanic students has more than doubled since 2000. Michelle miller went to a district in the deep south thats been ordered to desegregate. Reporter the mississippi delta town of cleveland has been grappling with its segregated past for 50 years, and now its time has run out. In a ruling, a federal judge ordered the district to merge two high schools and two middle schools, saying the dela...

Mason good evening, scotts off tonight. Im anthony mason. It looks like the race for the democratic president ial nomination will be a fight to the finish after Hillary Clinton narrowly won the primary in kentucky yesterday, and Bernie Sanders took oregon, clintonow has 96 of the delegates she needs to clinch. Its nearly impossible for sanders to catch her, but hes not giving up, and the party rift is widening. Heres nancy cordes. Ed. I reject any implication that our campaign supports violence. Reporter a defiant sanders told cbs news today that his campaign did not encourage the chaos at nev...

Posing or being created in American Government, and this fits again with your position, victoria. They were worried that extreme on what would be called the right and extreme on the left would actually cause turmoil that would break down American Government, that the only way to solve the problems of American Government was to find some middle reform, some middlelevel reform. Now, i appreciate very much randy mentioning my book, and along with david bernsteins book, too, which i think is a very good book, but i have two things to pitch for myself about that. I think if youre going to read thos...

Particularly on nights like tonight when we can really look at American History in unique and unusual ways. We are honored to be joined by Tonights Panel, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. [ applause ] Supreme Court Justice Sonia sotomayor. [ applause ] catherine fitts. [ applause ] and Supreme Court Society Publications director Clare Cushman. [ applause ] it is now my privilege to introduce the 13th secretary of the smithsonian institution, dr. David skorton, a Board Certified cardiologist, a jazz musician and he was recently the president of Cornell University and previously served...

Ill hopefully pronouce this correctly but a quaits club in richmond, which was essentially a Barbecue Club for gentlemen. And John Marshall was one of the founding members. And the coits club had their own punch and madeira was one of the primary ingredients along with cognac, rum and sugar and mints thrown in for fun, i think, but madeira was one of the primary ingredients. Coits was a long game at the time, kind of akin to horse shoes and they would throw these iron rings at megs. And one of the reasons they got together was to have this bond. And supposedly, John Marshall was vigorous in en...