This episode's headline: Are Blacks Better Off?; Feud In Windy City; Back to Democracy; Civil Rights at School; Best-Selling Priest. The guests include In Washington: ROBERT WOODSON, President, Council for a Black Economic Agenda; RIORDAN ROETT, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies; GWEN GREGORY, National School Boards Association; In New York: BENJAMIN HOOKS, NAACP; BARRY GOODMAN, ACLU; Reports from NewsHour Correspondents: ELIZABETH BRACKETT, in Chicago; JOANNE GARRETT (WHA), in Chicago. Byline: In New York: ROBERT MacNEIL, Executive Editor; In Washington: JIM LEHRER, Associate Editor; JUDY WOODRUFF, Correspondent