I currently teach a contemporary issues course at a local senior center here in Baltimore. The racial make up is 100% white. Do you have any suggestions articles that I could use in my class that may help enlighten us, without insulting those of color, especially those who are African-American, as to what it is like to be 'non-white'? Soon, I will be teaching a similar course through the Community College of Baltimore County and wish to use some of the material, if appropriate, for this topic there.

I wish to help bridge the gap between white and black in the United States. I wish to make inter-racial white and black couples not only 'acceptable' in our society, but looked upon without any prejudices.

Can you help?

With regards, your 'white allie'