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The recent 5-4 decision limiting voluntary segregation programs in our nation’s public schools represents an inversion of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision’s clarion call for racial equality in education. And it is all too easy to understand how societal efforts to achieve racial integration, including through affirmative action in higher education, are now in serious jeopardy.

This op-ed column was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, he criticizes recent trends and setbacks that are making it difficult for public schools and universities to promote diversity.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Columbia University Team up with the Schomburg Center for a Conversation on the State of Affirmative Action