Oprah Winfrey at Navy Pier.

Chicago Defender Executive Editor Roland S. Martin talks with Lyah Beth LeFlore, author of Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, which takes readers behind the velvet rope and inside A-list nightlife.

Roland S. Martin, executive editor of the Chicago Defender and the host of The Roland S. Martin Show on WVON-AM/1450 in Chicago, talks to ABC World News Tonight Anchor Charles Gibson about a comment he allegedly made to New York Magazine, Why the hell do you go to Africa?

Roland S. Martin, executive editor of the Chicago Defender, talks with Bakari Kitwana, author of Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf came to Chicago to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, but she visited the DuSable Museum of African American History to publicly thank Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. for securing $50 million for infrastructure development in Liberia, war-torn by 14 years of civil war.

Roland S. Martin, executive editor of the Chicago Defender and the host of The Roland S. Martin Show on WVON-AM/1450 in Chicago, discusses a column by Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times regarding Cook County Board President John Stroger

The Rev. Clay Evans, the retired pastor of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, preached Sunday's sermon - entitled Stay Focused - telling Pilgrim members not to be distressed by the fire that destroyed their church Jan. 6. The church is still here!, he thundered. The building is gone. But there is something on the inside that keeps us alive.

In a fiery speech that was part campaign rally and sermon, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. called on Black Chicagoans and other progressives Saturday, July 2, 2005 to raise their low expectations and demand that they receive economic and political parity from their elected officials.

Michael Eric Dyson, the University of Pennsylvania professor who calls himself the hip hop intellectual, speaks with Chicago Defender Executive Editor Roland S. Martin regarding his new book, Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?