There were individual skirmishes, one on one, and then a lot of guys from Campbell jumped in. It started on the campus and moved across to the park.

We emphasized it's important to get the word out to your community that this thing has been resolved.

It was a good meeting. Now the kids are almost like family.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.