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The author tells her life story, describing her Pennsylvania childhood, her college years in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, her experiences as a welfare caseworker during the Depression, her four decades as president of the National Council of Negro Women, and her top-level involvement in the civil rights movement.

The author explains why he believes that African-Americans and whites are forced into a type of slavery by a society that values money over humanity.

Examines important accomplishments and events in the history of African-Americans with a focus on the status of the African-American people in the last decades of the twentieth century. Includes short biographies of notable men and women, a glossary, a list of related Internet sites, and other resources.

Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church.

Profiles Cornel West, a scholar in African-American Studies who has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and written many books including "Race Matters.".

Draws from taped interviews and journalistic observation to examine the realities of life for middle- and upper-class African-Americans, based upon the author's five-year intermittent journey across the U.S., during which he visited Detroit, Washington D.C., Seattle, and other enclaves of African-American culture.

Shows how discrimination targets middle-class African Americans, impeding their economic and social progress, and wearying their spirit.

The author challenges the comments made by entertainer Bill Cosby at the 2004 NAACP dinner that poverty, high crime rate, and illiteracy among poor African Americans is a direct result of their own self-destructive behavior.

Tanner Colby recounts his research into why white and black people still rarely interact.