Student banned from St. Louis charter school because he’s black

The echoes of Jim Crow continue today, five decades after it officially ended.Edmund Lee is a third-grader at Gateway Science Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, a charter school he has attended since he was in kindergarten. Yet his family recently learned that he will no longer be able to attend the charter school because he is black.Lee's family is moving to a new suburban school district, where a decades-old state law does not allow black students to attend charter schools in the city."When I rea