Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower the music so you can hear the dialogue. We just couldn't do that for that song.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.