Karen Bass

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.