State of Black America 2007: Bringing the Invisible Man to Light

By: Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League

Prominent African-American scholar and author Ralph Ellison once depicted the black
man as socially invisible in his watershed novel Invisible Man. His hard-hitting portrayal
of life in 1940s black America suggested that it'll take more than a major Civil Rights
movement to bring the nation out of its racist past. That was in 1953.

Since then, much progress has been made in terms of black men gaining greater
visibility in the United States. At the anecdotal level, African-American men have
broken down color barriers in a wide array of arenas

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