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.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

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

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

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

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

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.