Bustle, May 17, 2019
May 17 marks the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Educationruling, which determined that public school segregation was unconstitutional. However, a recent report from UCLA and Penn State called "Harming Our Common Future: America's Segregated Schools 65 Years after Brown" indicates that the percentage of intensely segregated schools has actually increased in the last few decades. These statistics on school segregation over the years paint a picture of a Supreme Court decision that has weakened in recent years, The New York Timesreported, alongside other civil rights cases.