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The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

I want to influence the younger generation to know that we have the ability to make a change and bring us all together. Black Lives Matter.

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.