Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.