In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

The only way to fight back is to do what we do best and hope the community supports us.

There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the black community at the beginning of the 20th century, best envisioned by educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Tuskegee University Booker T. Washington.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.

TV stations can beat the local newspaper if they have the commitment. There is tremendous opportunity in front of us with the Internet. We are where television was in the late 1950s.