I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

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

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

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

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.

If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.