Now, Even I Am Dreading Black History Month

"Hey, the Queen is here," shouted Henry Louis Gates Jr. as Toni Morrison walked into the "living room" of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "This will go down in the annals of African-American history,"...

That the accomplishment was feted by the largely African-American wait and custodial staffs with rolled eyes and comments on how truly small African American history has become will not.