I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.