So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then….

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America ….

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a….

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in ea….

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race..

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am..

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centr….

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been inter….

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case..

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wonde….

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away..

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, burie….

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique..

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the….

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history..

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black..

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversit….

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him..

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's….

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great….