The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

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.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.

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

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.