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Some are combining education with real activism and organizational work - not wordy press conferences full of empty threats and proclamations, not rallies where there are more speakers than audience, not bigoted attacks on others meant to draw headlines for the attacker, not announcements of brand new organizations each semester in the name of unity.

These young people are carrying it on. The torch is already in their hands and they are proudly holding it high.

Howard University student Robin Adams organizes young people in Washington's public housing projects.

Melvyn Colon, a Ph. D. candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a single parent and an organizer for community development in Boston's Puerto Rican neighborhoods.

Selma, Alabama organizer Margaret Ann Brock has struggled to get her college education for 15 years; she is close to that goal at Auburn.

At Union Institute, Joyce Duncan is seeking a Ph. D in organizational development, but she has spent much of her young life as a union activist and tenant organizer.

Spellman College student Rachael Jackson organizes in Atlanta.

Milagros Roca is getting her Master's Degree at Bryan Mawr; when she's through, she'll go back to her work with children in Boston.

Hermilia Trevino-Sauceda, a farm worker all her life, created an international network of farm women, and is getting a BA in rural development at California State, Fullerton.

Ph. D candidate Syovata Edari creates African heritage videos and organizes for prisoner rights while a student at the University of Wisconsin.

Prathia Hall-Wynn, my colleague in the 1960s student movement, has never stopped being an advocate of Christian activism; she's now working for a doctorate at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Vivan Brady wants to be a people's lawyer, not an apologist for corporations or a defender of privilege. She's worked against racism and police brutality in New York and will get her law degree from NYU Law School.

Radiclani Clytus has worked for years as a mentor to poor youth and in anti-racist work; now he's working for a Ph. D. at Indiana University.

Maya Pennick has been an activist with the Alabama-based Federation of Southern Co-ops since childhood; now she is a student at Georgia State with plans to teach.

Her fellow Georgia State students, Kevin Ladaris and Olimatta Taal, are leaders in the Ten-state Youth Task Force against environmental racism and for education equity.

Celestina Owusu came to the United States in 1983 and plans to return to Ghana to bring health care to her village after finishing her studies in public health at Johns Hopkins University.

'Virginia Commonwealth University student Franklin Roberts