11.30.2018 - By WNYC
Noliwe Rooks, the director of American Studies at Cornell University, former associate director of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of, Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education (The New Press, 2017), links newly elected Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's controversial comments during the campaign to the publicly funded "segregation academy" she attended and discusses the impact of those schools on public education in the South.