Brown v. Board of Education at 70: Promise for students, but still work to be done

I was four years into my tenure at a Black-owned newspaper when the city of Augusta, Georgia, voted to lift a decades-old desegregation order back in 2013. I was skeptical of the move because the promise of progressivism in education had not been fulfilled, evidenced by middling test scores and a literal erasure of the city’s Black educational past.

Less than a month after the order was lifted, the school system in Augustaacknowledged plans to the Cauley-Wheeler building, a hallowed and historical structure on the campus of Lucy Craft Laney High School. The house was the last remaining