Rene takes on a fourteen year old murder suspect as a client. Colliar forces ME out of her security job.
Rene is harassed by police when she gets pulled over. ME gets a writing break in a city council investigation piece.Young Rene and ME deal with their older brother's growth due to their specific life choices, becoming Muslim and military service respectively.
Rene decides to aid the community by joining the Big Sister organization. ME supports her new novel with a tv appearance.Young ME tries to convince Rene to utilize a young friend's newfound spiritual charity.
ME learns she may be an aunt when a man named Tuan shows up saying he is her brother Johnny's son. Rene assists a father in a child custody case.Young ME and family deal with Johnny's upcoming departure to Vietnam.
Rene juggles the decision to force April into taking a drug test when she acts peculiar. ME tries to handle Colliar's mother's disruptive influence on her household and husband.Young Rene's temper flares after a peace march. Colliar's mother doesn't lift a finger to stop her husband's abuse of Young Colliar.
ME is on the fence when Rene handles a black contractor's case brought against him by Colliar who believes he lost a job because he wasn't black.The FBI keeps tabs on James.
ME uses her ties to the civil-rights movement as fuel for her writing. Renee discovers that a former classmate is now a convicted felon.Young Rene's mother takes the movement's reins when her father is arrested.
Ajoni moves in with the Sims after his parents have had enough of his interracial relationship with Kelly. Rene and Joe consider their true feelings for each other.Young Rene develops feelings for a white boy.
Rene and ME try an unsuccessful road trip as their car is stolen and Rene is taken in by the police. Colliar runs into trouble with the children on the home front.Young Rene and ME wonder if there's life outside our planet.
Kelly tells her parents that she's pregnant. Rene crusades against rape.Young Rene and ME deal with their boyfriend problems.
ME and Colliar try to handle the news of Kelly's pregnancy while Rene tries to win the endorsement of a prejudiced club.Young ME learns the process Rene goes through to keep her hair straight.
Honestly about a past flirtation with drugs during an interview has negative repercussions on Rene's campaign. Kelly's drama teacher wants ME's book for material.Young ME and Rene try to stop the destruction of Port Dixie.
ME tries to pull together loose ends with a job at a jewelry store. Rene tries to get in the holiday spirit.Young ME and Rene share with the underpriviledged.
ME tries to fight Kelly's school's decision to make her switch schools because of her pregnancy.Young ME and Rene have their first physical contact with boys.
Kelly and Ajoni give their parents ten days notice before they plan on wedding.Young ME and Rene try to deal with the country and the Vietnam war.
Kelly and Ajoni get married.Young ME has an experience with drugs. Young ME and Rene talk about Elston's draft dodging.
An argument over Colliar's thoughts of Kelly's wedding leads to ME moving in with Rene. Rene represents a rape victim who claims that the DA's nephew is the culprit.Young Rene and ME watch in awe as the spirit of competition fills Colliar and Henry.
ME and Rene ponder what effect not marrying Colliar would have had on their lives.Young ME and Colliar spend time apart.
ME is afraid that things with Colliar are coming to an end. Rene represents a fired worker.Young ME and family react to the news of Johnny's death.
Rene accepts the defense of one of Ajoni's friends accused of manslaughter against a person who was assaulting him with racial slurs.Young ME and family try to handle the loss of Johnny.
Rene takes the manslaughter case against Ajoni's friend further. Kelly has troubles with her pregnancy.
ME finds hypocrisy in a minister's words. As a DA Candidate, Rene falls under the microscope and takes a stand in not losing an illegal alien client.Young ME demands admittance into Colliar's band or else. Colliar chooses "or else."