Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions