So Many People Of Color Who Made

Arnold Rampersad's Stunningly Revealing Biography Has, At Long Last, Unveiled-in Magisterial Prose-the Very Complex And Vulnerable Man Behind Ralph Ellison's Own Masks And Myths. One Of The Nation's Most Brilliant Writers Emerges As All The More Fascinating Precisely Because He Was So Very Human. Painstakingly Researched And Compellingly Written, Ralph Ellison Is A Masterwork Of The Genre Of Literary Biography.

Lincoln Would Love The Fact That Obama Is Such A Great Conciliator, Trying To Transcend Ideology.

Suffering Does Not Necessarily Ennoble You.

Brazil Is The Second Blackest Nation In The World.

Very Few, If Any, First-generation Black Or White Or Asian Kids Will Pursue A Ph.d. They'll Pursue The Professions For Economic Security. Many Will Go To Law School And/or Business School.