Back in the mid-1990s, a young African-American UW student named Lee Hawkins wrote some gutsy, provocative op-ed columns for us. We knew then he had a great future ahead of him.
….Today he works as the Journal’s correspondent with CNBC and at 8 p.m. this Thursday night he will anchor a one-hour documentary that is based on a book he’s written called “NEWBOs: The Rise of America’s New Black Overclass.”