‘Better Off During Segregation’: Black North Carolina Teens Called Cockroaches In School Newspaper Faced More Racist Attacks from Adults After Local Broadcast Aired of Their Experience, Lawuit Says
A federal appeals court decided this week to allow Davina Ricketts, a former North Carolina high school student, to continue pursuing her racial discrimination lawsuit against the Wake County Public School System, its board of education, and numerous school officials. Ricketts alleges that school and district officials did not intervene and were “deliberately indifferent” to…
