What I learned from Colin Powell
N MANY WAYS, WE CAME FROM COMPLETELY Colin Powell was born in Harlem, was raised in the South Bronx and, as a young ROTC cadet in the late 1950s, endured the injustice of the segregated South. I was born in San Francisco and grew up in the 1970s amid the Summer of Love and marches for women’s rights, where neighbors proudly flew rainbow flags.
