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

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

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

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

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

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism