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Let Everyone's Light Shine Aug. 22, 2019
This week marks the 400th anniversary of more than 20 African slaves being sold on land that is now ... Read More
Let Everyone's Light Shine Aug. 22, 2019
This week marks the 400th anniversary of more than 20 African slaves being sold on land that is now ... Read More
Dissing the Dead in Dallas May. 28, 2019
During the walk-up to Memorial Day, with its evocations of respect for fallen warriors, hypercharged... Read More
Media Matters' Fake-News Pro-Slavery Headline Apr. 25, 2019
In journalism, a "lede" is the introductory section of a news story, intended to entice the reader i... Read More
Why Political Emancipation Without Economic Independence Is Incomplete Freedom Apr. 25, 2019
I recently had the pleasure of being invited by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speak at a breakfast gat... Read More
Background to Sri Lanka's Easter Terror Atrocities Apr. 24, 2019
Within Sri Lanka's multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, the Easter Sunday terror massacres have... Read More
To Pay for Reparations, Will Democrats Sue Themselves? Mar. 07, 2019
After the election and re-election of the country's first black president, who would have thought th... Read More
'New And Contrite Hearts' and Other Necessary Stuff Mar. 05, 2019
Hoping for a knockout blow to battered, bedraggled remnants of the Confederate army, the starched an... Read More
Love of Country Feb. 14, 2019
In the next few days, we will celebrate both Valentine's Day and Presidents Day. These holidays brin... Read More
Frederick Douglass and Voting Rights Feb. 01, 2019
I have been reading — more accurately, listening to — David Blight's new biography, "Fre... Read More
Navigating the Great Divide Jan. 08, 2019
In the months after the election of Donald Trump, there was a mini-political movement in California ... Read More
A Reasonable Proposal Put Forth on 'Silent Sam' Dec. 11, 2018
Chancellor Carol Folt and the trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have come ... Read More
I Loved and Lost Barack Obama (in the Trumpian Civil War) Oct. 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — I once loved Barack Obama, but don't see enough of him anymore. Is he writing pen... Read More
Corporate Democrats Still Don't Have a Clue How to Get Progressives to Vote for Them Aug. 10, 2018
When 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset a 10-term incumbent congressman in New York — ... Read More
America Divided Against Itself, Again Jun. 27, 2018
On May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks entered the floor of the United States Senate, approa... Read More
Ohio: Both Sides of the Political River Jun. 13, 2018
CINCINNATI — I look across the Ohio River and I sigh. The winding river divided America for s... Read More
How Federal Policies Mortgage the Future Feb. 04, 2018
Twenty or 50 years from now, the uproar over the House Intelligence Committee memo will be no more t... Read More
Pickett's Charge Dec. 18, 2017
Rather than rehash the numbers, let's just say that the black voters of Alabama are the reason Roy M... Read More
Their America, and Ours. Nov. 03, 2017
"Meet you at Peace Cross." In northwest D.C. in the 1950s, that was an often-heard comment among hig... Read More
There Goes Colonel Sanders Aug. 21, 2017
One of the worst advertising flops I've ever seen has been the effort to replace the original Colone... Read More
