Brown vs. Board of Education

On this day, 50 years ago, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, the US Supreme Court ended federally sanctioned racial segregation in the public schools by ruling unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." 50 years has passed, but are blacks any better off today? The answer is yes. They are more well off socially, economically and educationally. But since the late 80s, there has been slow reversal of the trend, and more and more, schools are becoming segregated again -- where there are schools dominated by whites, and visible minorities are provisioned schools that are usally underfunded and unequal. Read the BusinessWeek article.