I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic.

African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.