"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first..." — Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

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.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.