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

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

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

I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.

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

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.