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

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

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.