The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

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.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

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