Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

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.

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.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

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

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

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.