Remembering Raspberry.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - William Raspberry - Brief article

William Raspberry was one of Washington's genuinely wise men. As a black man he had the courage to criticize his fellow blacks: "civil rights leadership, for all its emphasis on desegregating schools, has done very little to improve them." This was written in 1982. It is lamentably true today, dust last year, Adrian Fenty, the first mayor to have the courage to take on the issue of teacher quality, was turned out in...