I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

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

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.