Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.