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

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.