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.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

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

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.