You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage as I like to put it and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system...
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that...
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a...
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a...
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce men are...
I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want...
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated...
When I'm home the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up...