I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

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.

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

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.