Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.