Interview with David Jones: The Lot of Black Professionals

Interview with David Jones: The Lot of Black Professionals

At a conference on “leadership succession” in New York late in 1985, I was struck by the remarks of David Jones, then executive director of the city’s Youth Bureau, now head of one of the city’s oldest nonprofit social service agencies, the Community Service Society. Jones mentioned in passing, but not casually, that several bright young black lawyers he’d known in some of the city’s most powerful law firms during the mid-1970s had committed suicide and/...