On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around h….

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption..

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a pi….

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'the….

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options..

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don….