He was the first tenured African American professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
He will shake up the political landscape and focus on issues important to African Americans.
It is time for Black Americans to forge a new political path other than allegiance to the Democratic Party.
He stands no chance of winning and will only divert votes away from Democrats.
A progressive third-party bid attracting only a few percentage points of the total vote in battleground states could tip the election to the GOP.