Ike's wife, Thando, the epitome of South Africa's new upwardly mobile blacks, revels in the sound of being called "Madam."

Emerge, aimed at upwardly mobile blacks, was to hit the stands Sept. 19.

And it's not just the moral majority, or upwardly mobile blacks, who'll be offended.

They not only held parties, members say, but did good works throughout their communities and gave upwardly mobile blacks a needed citywide network of professional contacts.

"Strictly Business" is an utterly joyless romantic comedy about young upwardly mobile blacks who make it big by adapting themselves to the worst values of the white establishment.

Entitled Today's America, this explained the split between the successful, socially mobile blacks and the rest thus:

But like other enclaves just west of Newark, West Orange began to attract upwardly mobile blacks in the 1980's.

It had long enjoyed a pre-eminent position among Baltimore's large population of upwardly mobile blacks, guaranteeing the school's prosperity.

Tomorrow B.E.T. will announce that it has agreed to buy out Time Warner's share of Emerge, the 18-month-old magazine aimed at upwardly mobile blacks.

Here, the artist may be reminding us that in the early 20th century, upwardly mobile blacks were thought of as the ultimate threat to whites.