I looked up “de jure” on dictionary.com and saw a link for “What is soup de jure?” This is quite funny because “de jure” means “according to law.” So soup de jure is “soup of the law.” Actually, I’m ...

Popularized by U.S. Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to today, the de facto segregation myth has been adopted by conventional opinion, liberal and conservative alike. Contrary to popular belief ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...