‘STILL NOT FREE’
2012, to speak out and do more
on what Jackson called “the undercurrent.” Cummings said, “He
thinks he has accomplished a lot,
and there is only so hard I can
press him.”
But, since the death of Trayvon Martin and now more openly,
Obama now seems to be awakening
to the need to speak openly from
the African-American perspective,
and Cummings insists on seeing the
promise beyond the pain, based in
part on his own youth.
For Cummings, the first steps
on the still arduous march to true
racial eq