The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

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.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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

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