According to the Private School Review, as recently as the 2023-2024 school year, about 50,000 students in Mississippi attend private K-12 schools, while about 444,000 attend public schools.

Across the majority-Black districts in those states, private schools are 72% white and public schools are 19% white. Many of those districts are home to segregation academies, which siphon off ...

In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland, Mississippi. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruled that ...