Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

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

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.