Goals for black America not met - USATODAY.com: 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.
