Black leadership is dead. Long live black leadership. - The Washington Post

Black leadership is dead. Long live black leadership. - The Washington Post: "This piece is the second in a special On Leadership series exploring different facets of the state of black leadership today.

Somewhere between the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr. King and the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson, the ascension of Louis Farrakhan, and the rhetorical flourishes and marches of Al Sharpton, well-meaning Americans of all stripes got lulled into the notion that we could only have a few black mouthpieces at a time. And that is simply the farthest thing from the truth."