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The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have reaffirmed the educational and civic benefits of diversity and the damaging pitfalls of school segregation.

The North Carolina Association of Educators has called for shoppers to boycott stores owned by Raleigh multimillionaire and conservative operative Art Pope for his "anti-public education" policies.

With 2012 looming, Southerners will take to the polls across the region to decide key legislative races, as well as a nationally-watched ballot initiative in Mississippi.