I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

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

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

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

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.