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More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, more than 1 million black and Hispanic students study in Texas classrooms that include few to no white students. State leaders and education officials are working to give all students more educational opportunities but have largely abandoned racial integration as a tool for equity.More in this series

Texas Tribune reporters Aliyya Swaby and Alexa Ura drove thousands of miles across Texas to report on the institutional barriers that have put students of color at a disadvantage across the state. They also learned how multiple school districts are working to bridge the achievement gap.

Watch them talk discuss their coverage of the “Dis-Integration” project.

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Justin Dehn was a multimedia producer, focusing on video and audio production, from 2010 to 2023. He’s been shooting and producing news for more than two decades. Justin has been behind the camera for...

Jianing “Holly” He was a multimedia fellow at The Texas Tribune in 2018-19. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. After graduating from Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and psychology,...