As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you realize it's everyone. Everyone could be slaves.

That profile is more common than not. There is a shortage of teachers of color and particularly African-American males at the elementary-school level.

People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I never want to be other than an African American.

To suggest that these African-American leaders would somehow shortchange their own citizens is absolutely without merit,

In English we were reading the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the people of African-American descent, there were only two of us in the class.

It will tell the stories of African-American culture from slavery through civil rights.