National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.