Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

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.

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.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.