The Present and Future of Black Studies

To the Editor:

The trouble with Robin Wilson's piece on black studies ("Past Their Prime?," The Chronicle, April 22) for me was that it had little to do with what I experience every day in the field as the editor of the Journal of Black Studies, a member of the Temple University faculty, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council for Black Studies. The article would have had more credibility if there had been information about the NCBS and a concentration on the