Tuesday, March 04, 2008
USA Today: 'Goals for black America not met'
From last week:
"The USA has made great strides in the past four decades toward expanding a black middle class and producing black political leaders, including the first viable candidate for president. Yet blacks still lag behind whites significantly in income, education and other measures of well-being, a study out today concludes.
Forty years after the Kerner Commission warned of a country heading toward "two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal," the Eisenhower Foundation, a private urban-policy institute, finds the country has failed to meet the goals laid out by the presidential commission."
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Labels: US race relations
