The Williamses are Black Baby Boomer poster children.
Derrick is a mid-level executive with a national car rental firm.
Yvette, a former full-figured model, is a buyer for string of boutiques for Rubenesque women. Married eight years, their dual incomes have firmly entrenched them in the Black middle-class. Their education, careers, impressive suburban home, two cars, bright child and other trappings are visible signs of their success. But there are snakes and crabgrass in their garden of Eden. Yvette and Derrick agreed not to have another child until after he started his own business.