So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.