Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.