Quoted: But she spoke forcefully on the subject, citing personal and family experience to illustrate "a paradox and contradiction in this country," which "we still haven't resolved."

I'm not one to cite the Wash. Times, but it was their interview and the headline definitely caught my attention.

Quoted: If it were up to me, I'd encourage everyone to play baseball regardless of race, ethnicity, height, weight, age and even ability level. Therefore, this project is designed with kids in mind. I simply want to encourage our youth to play this great game of baseball!

Seems like a great project. I'm hoping the veteran group of African American Tigers can help invigorate youth baseball programs in Detroit. I know they're a very community-oriented group; kudos to FSD for doing so much to promote their efforts.

Fascinating.

Quoted: CHICAGO -- Looking around at the overwhelmingly white audience that was applauding Sen. Barack Obama's luncheon speech on Iraq at a downtown hotel recently, the Rev. B. Herbert Martin expressed both satisfaction and concern.

Provocative stuff.

Quoted: I wasn’t at the Values Voter Summit in DC a week-and-a-half ago but many of my righteous black brethren were. Apparently, they brought da proverbial noise. Da homophobic noise. Andrew Sullivan posted a dispatch from an attendee who “ ‘watched a ballroom of about 1,700 people seem to feel permission to let their hate for The Gays run wild every time a black minister hit the stage.’ Welcome to today's Republican Party: where using black homophobia to win white and black voters is a central electoral strategy.” He’s not exaggerating.