"I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball."

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In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?

— Melissa Harris-Perry