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.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.