There was a contagion of ordinances. Many small towns expelled the black population or decreed a policy of not allowing any blacks.

It's tied to life expectancy. They make it sound as if it's a health measure.

I had an Aha! moment. It was October of 2001. I was speaking in my home town in Decatur.

The more these viruses interact with the human population, the more likely it is that it could adopt this type of mutation.

I don't think we would have the kind of prison population now and what happens in this country with the gangs if the Panthers had been allowed to continue what they decided to do, which was basically empower black communities to take back their self control ... and reestablish the dignity of being a black person in this country,

Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable to diabetes, vascular disease and many of the other conditions that lead to chronic wounds.