This Week in Black Twitter: Readying for 'Black Panther,' paying homage to Malcolm X

Decisions, decisions.

Superman who?

2. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925. If the prominent black nationalist leader were alive today, he would have been 91 years old.

On Malcolm X's birthday, which some have argued should be a federal holiday like Martin Luther King Jr.'s, people took to Twitter to pay homage to the revolutionary activist who fought for black freedom.

3. Did you think segregated schools were a thing of the past? Well, think again.

Sixty-two years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, reports surfaced about a Mississippi school district being ordered to desegregate.

According to The Washington Post, the Cleveland, Miss., district is divided by railroad tracks, which separate white families one side from black families on the other.

A judge ordered the two high schools and two middle schools to consolidate, writing: "The delay in desegregation has deprived generations of students of the constitutionally-guaranteed right of an integrated education. Although no court order can right these wrongs, it is the duty of the district to ensure that not one more student suffers under this burden."

Some people were confused and shocked.

Clint Smith, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, created a thread on Twitter explaining the relationship between housing and school segregation.

Without neighborhood integration, he argued, schools will remain segregated.

I wonder if this little piece of history will be added to textbooks.

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