uche blackstone, the title of your book is legacy. you happen to be a legacy at harvard. what is the story? dr. blackstone: thank you for having me on. the story is that my twin sister and i and my mother are the first black mother and daughter legacy graduates from harvard. i graduated in 2005, my mother in 1976, so we made history. host: you write that your mother was one of the lucky ones who made it through. dr. blackstone: it is important when i talk about that legacy, since i graduated, there has only been one mother and daughter legacy graduate, so we are talking about first and second in the 2000's. that is to say my mother grew up in different circumstances, essentially on public assistance, a challenging childhood, but was lucky to have men touring. she was the first person in her family who went to college and her professor encouraged her to go to medical school. she was a brilliant woman and deserved everything, but there were other young children who could have ended up at harvard if it were not for poverty and racism, because that decreases access to opportu