Critic

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.