I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.