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

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Afric….

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama.….

You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ] Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a ….

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a….

In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic….

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you..

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same..

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten..

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white..

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why ca….

In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched i….

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is dete….

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been crea….

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work….

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the ….

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity..

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement..

No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager..

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded int….

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achieve….