Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

It's fascinating how life works.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.