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Named for the famous Norman Rockwell painting depicting Ruby Bridges’ attempt to became the first black child to attend a white elementary school in the South, THE PROBLEM WE ALL LIVE WITH will tell the definitive story of school segregation in the United States, from the founding of our nation’s schools to the Civil Rights’ Era up to our own deeply segregated present.

This book is unprecedented, both in its scope and in its argument. It is a sweeping narrative history, rich in character and detail, the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS. But THE PROBLEM WE ALLLIVE WITH also presents an urgent contemporary problem and its solution. As Nikole Hannah-Jones’ many years of research and writing on segregation shows, only one reform has ever worked to close both the achievement and the opportunity gap, and it’s the one tool we refuse to use: integration.

 

There isn’t a journalist working today more deeply qualified to tell this story than Nikole Hannah-Jones. As she discusses in her New York Times Magazine piece on integration in Brooklyn, Nikole was bussed as a child from predominantly black neighborhood to a nearly all white school, an intervention that changed the course of her life. She has been reporting on school segregation for nearly a decade, first at ProPublica and now for theNew York Times Magazine. Her much-lauded “This American Life” piece on school segregation in Ferguson, Missouri earned her both a Peabody and a Polk Award this year.