A closer look at the race gaps highlighted in Obama's Howard University commencement address (Allegra Pocinki, Richard V. Reeves, Brookings)

The final months of Obama’s historic terms of office as America’s first black president are taking place against the backdrop of an ugly Republican nominating race, and to the sound of ugly language on race from Donald Trump. Progress towards racial equality is indeed proceeding in faltering steps, as the president himself made clear in a commencement speech, one of his last as president, to the graduating class of Howard University.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2016/05/09-race-gaps-in-obamas-howard-commencement-address