You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service..

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age..

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke..

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost ….

The first black president will be a politician who is black..

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, ….

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living ….

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008..

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little..

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? Wh….

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent Afr….

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say….

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money do….

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American pro….

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th pre….

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the Americ….

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult….

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president..