It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

How do you make things fair?

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

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

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

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.

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.