The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.