If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.