Huffington Magazine Issue 59 | Page 56

‘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