I sat with black opponents on the cold, unforgiving floor waiting for my turn in the mile relay.

The strong odds are that each will face a Republican opponent in the fall - a black Republican opponent.

Five weeks before the election, he lags behind his black opponent, David Dinkins, in the polls.

The serious attacks on black opponents began within weeks of that defeat.

Once he was the world's heavyweight champ, Johnson (who relinquished the colored title) never fought black opponents, either.

Mr. Jackson, who was criticized by some black opponents of the Mayor for agreeing to see him, had sought to play down the meeting's significance.

Once he was the world's heavyweight champ, Johnson did not fight a black opponent for the first five years of his reign.

Yet it has thrown in its lot with the white mayor, Richard Daley, rather than his black opponents.

Mr. Giuliani has been generally careful about exploiting whatever racial prejudice confronts his black opponent.

James Connolly, her black opponent, says that "a Jewish lady" cannot understand the problems of young black men.