Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism