A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.