Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.