Sublime

In college he read The Other America, Michael Harrington’s account of the lives of the American poor, and listened to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, with its bracing call to public service.

Still, having those aspirations voiced and reiterated on a weekly basis was, for me, an integral part of the educational experience at Howard.

entrap him by arranging a business meeting that instead was a rendezvous with a prostitute.

The Urban League, however, was advocacy-which meant action-constituency-based services to black people.

It was not the politics most Black Americans wanted of Jordan, especially not when, right outside of where he balled in Chicago, housing projects ate away at the lives of the descendants of migrants; especially not when in his home state Harvey Gantt, a Black man, lost in senate races to Jesse Helms, a former Klansman, twice. When appealed to for a