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A couple of weeks ago I received a tweet from a friend with the simple word ‘Wow’ attached next to a link to an article. The article in question was ‘ A Divided Prom’ published in the New York Times by Gillian Laub. It covered a simple enough event, a high school prom, but what made this coverage dramatically different to any other prom in the U.S or the world was the fact that in 2009 a high school in a little town in Georgia was still holding segregated prom’s. The white population of the graduating class of Montgomery County High held their prom on a Friday and the following night the black graduating students of the same class held their prom at the same venue. What was startling about the coverage besides the obvious racist sentiment that is blatantly shown in the school’s inability to hold a single prom or to prevent segregated prom’s from taking place, is the voice of the student’s.

Full coverage with voice excerpts and photos from the article