What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's miser...

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, th...

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and gene...

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties o...

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and wh...

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loade...

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growt...

I love a black wedd...

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and c...

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious...

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're...

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black at...