The Myth That Busing Failed

<p>The first Democratic debate brought renewed attention to busing as a tool of school desegregation. We spoke to a colleague about what the conversation has been missing. Guest: Nikole Hannah-Jones, who writes about racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>“The school bus, treasured when it was serving as a tool of segregation,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/sunday/it-was-never-about-busing.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank"> became reviled only when it transformed into a tool of integration</a>,” Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in a news analysis.</li></ul>