Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.

The removal of Bill Cosby from his cultural pedestal seems pretty complete.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him.