“Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.”

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.

I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.

I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

You’re the best there. You’ve been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we’ll make nice music.

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.