We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of these oligarchs and plutocrats who are trying to snatch the best of our democracy away?

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Context shapes who you are.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.