Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

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

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.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

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

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

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.