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

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

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

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

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.

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