There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

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

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

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

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.

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