I heard someone the other day who said 'How can Colin Kaepernick lead this because he's mixed and he was raised by adoptive White parents. I wonder i….

I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't se….

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year..

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's ….

I've got a buddy who will not watch me because he'll say 'I don't know who that dude is.'.

I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how p….

You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the moment they found out their ch….

I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and as honest as I can and I don'….

I sat with five of the "Mothers of the Movement." Of course I'm hyping the show, but I keep telling everybody this part is not hype. After a while pa….

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about..

I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly speci….

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to ….

I was two votes away from class clown in high school..

We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the Fi….

I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fi….

We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it colo….

It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kind….

I wanted people to kind of take a peek to see that the pain, even though you may see them out at the Democratic National Convention or at Essence [Fe….

I feel like, I mean, there's no new wheel, you know. A newsmagazine is what it is..