The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

One must learn how to be black in America.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.