Reginald OwensAfrican-AmericanWhen speech is truly freeWhen I walked into the newsroom of The Houston Post on August 16, 1972, there were only three other African Americans working at this major daily as full-time journalists. I was twenty-three years old, just two months out of school, armed with a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and the memories of growing up in segregated North Louisiana.July 13, 2007Page 1 of 1