I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.

African-American people adore President Obama.