A challenge to change; we as black Americans must not forget the past, but negative attitudes will only cloud our future.(My Turn)(Column) From: Newsweek | Date: October 6, 1997| Author: Meredith, James | COPYRIGHT 1997 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The first black American to attend the University of Mississippi asserts that although white racism continues to impede blacks, black leadership has created many of the largest obstacles blacks face in the 1990s.

We as black Americans must not forget the past, but negative attitudes will only cloud our future

ON OCT. 1, I WILL GIVE A SPEECH AT SHEPHERD College at Shepherdstown, W.Va. It will be for me a commemoration of an important event: the 35th anniversary of the ...

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