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

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

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

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.

I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

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.

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