The state of the black community 50 years since : Progress or regress?

The Real News, the university's oldest African American student publication, is hosting a forum with prominent scholars and community leaders on Tuesday, Feb. 8, to discuss "The State of the Black Community" today. As racism, the African American ghetto and segregated schools persist a half century after Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended school segregation in this country, the question remains: "How far has the African American community progressed?" The public event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. at Stanford Law School, Room 190. Participants include law Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard University; law Professor Rick Banks and political science Professor Emeritus Lucius Barker of Stanford; Eva Patterson, director of the Equal Justice Society; William McNeill, managing attorney at the Employment Law Center in San Francisco; and Yetunde Reeves, a teacher at McClymonds High School in West Oakland.

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