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

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

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.

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

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

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

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.