This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.