And of course, though I did not know him well, every year around Father's Day I think of my own father. He and my mother divorced when I was...
And when we get distracted by those kinds of question, I think we do a disservice to the American people.
I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper.
And nothing really changes except the news coverage quiets down and Anderson Cooper is on to something else.
Last month, several former members of Congress cashed in their taxpayer-funded retirement checks from jail. After indictment and conviction ...
Ministers, it's time to unite behind our faith and help all of God's children around the world and here at home realize that we are all surg...
Much of what we saw on our television screens 15 years ago was Los Angeles expressing a lingering, ongoing, pervasive legacy—a tragic legacy...
And it made me think about our cities and communities all around this country, how not only do we still have scars from that riot and the 'q...
This disaster was a powerful metaphor for what's gone on for generations.
But in the middle of that desperate time, there was a miracle: a baby born with a bullet in its arm. We need to hear about these miracles in...
If we have more black men in prison than are in our colleges and universities, then it's time to take the bullet out.
Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in rio...
A few weeks ago, I attended a service at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the LA Riots. After a jur...
We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and also by asking for s...
The leaders in Washington have forgotten President Kennedy's call to remember that 'here on Earth God's work must truly be our own.'
This journey teaches us that they are going to keep driving that wedge; they are going to keep the distraction going.
Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether I thought race was the reason the resp...
We understand it because we get the sense today that politics has become a business and not a mission.
