Celebrities, leaders share their experience as black Americans

• Story Highlights
• Vanessa Williams: Being black is a "badge of honor;" still "I feel racism daily"
  
• Spike Lee: African Americans stories are universal, should not be "ghetto-ized"
  
• Michael Baisden: Young black men need more intellectual, academic role models
  
• CNN Presents: Black in America airs July 23 and 24, at 9 p.m. ET
  
• Next Article in Living »