Juneteenth, More Than a Barbecue
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights...
View ArticleDon’t “Say Her Name.” | Commentary
On the night of March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor was gunned down in her underwear by plainclothes police officers serving a no-knock warrant at her apartment. Immediately the spin machine began,...
View ArticleThree Blind Barristers
Former DOJ employees—Messrs. Engel, Rosen, and Donoghue—proved that two things could be true at once. The country owes them a debt for their adherence to the law. While at the same time, the praise...
View ArticleA Letter To Those Who Don’t Do Politics
Since around age sixteen, I have had friends and adults in my life who have said to me more than once, ‘no, no, I don’t do politics.’ Well, to those who angrily rebuffed me—I say—you may not do...
View ArticleMAGA-Jesus, Take the Wheel
Speculation has flourished for more than a year about whether Donald Trump wanted to escort the mob that descended on the Capitol in January of 2021, or was it just more of his empty bravado and...
View ArticleAcceptance: America’s Newest Mental Illness
The panic over 9/11 that led to the Patriot Act is almost understandable. We had seen thousands of our fellow Americans incinerated, and our military and financial invincibility symbols were toppled....
View ArticleOpinion |Baseball, Apple-pie, and Mass Shootings
At the turn of the century, horse racing was the number one sport in America. By the time Babe Ruth overtook Seabiscuit amidst the Great Depression, baseball had become America’s pastime. There are...
View ArticleBeware of the Bannon
The January sixth committee members are faced with two questions regarding the tentative appearance of Steve Bannon as a witness. Is he trying to use the committee to save his skin and avoid a possible...
View ArticleSaying Something Stupid as Opposed to Believing It
As a black American, I can understand the tumult over First Lady Jill Biden associating Latin culture with “bogades”(sic) and ‘breakfast tacos.” Talking in part before the UnidosUS annual conference,...
View ArticleCommentary| I know Conservatives Don’t Want to Change, but…
They can at least keep up. The industrial world has moved past the days of child brides, concubines, and selling our female children as brood chattels. The case of a victimized, brutalized, and...
View ArticleLiberals Attend Reveal Parties Too
Anyone who has read my column, stories, blogs, and meanderings is well aware that I am an avowed liberal. I am so anti-gun in the hands of civilians—banning assault rifles would be the beginning for...
View ArticlePre-Life Politics | Opinion
The GOP keeps dropping their theocratic pants, and America gets mooned. Despite having no platform beyond trolling the Democratic party, and self-serving religious attacks disguised as culture clashes,...
View Article‘Yesterday…’
With over 250,000 adults living in the United States who routinely use the word “yesterday,” Donald Trump, who once said, “I know words,” apparently wants to eliminate its usage because it is hard for...
View ArticleMade up Memos, Rules, and Traditions
To begin with, the Constitution makes no allowance for the arrest of a lawless current or former President. If that presidential exception existed, a sitting president could stand on Fifth Ave and...
View ArticleHistory Proves America Can Withstand
On August 8, 1974, a reflective and less defiant Richard Nixon became the first American President to resign his office. As a member of the black community who had seen friends and fathers of friends...
View ArticleTrickery, Deceit, and Victory?
I am not counting my trees before they are hugged, but with the help of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, Joe Biden is one Democratic party vote away from passing a historic climate bill. The former...
View ArticleCommentary| Great Minds Think…
Growing up in black America and old enough to remember, pridefully watching many blacks do something for the first time embeds possibilities in one’s historical eye. Two of the icons of my youth passed...
View ArticleWill we see a Plot Twist at the ‘Sinema?’
Arizona’s Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema vowed to constituents she would help to lower the cost of prescription drugs. “We need to make health care more affordable, lower prescription drug prices,...
View ArticleIS Ron Johnson the Next Toe to Fall Off?
Democrats have wanted to invest in climate control for twenty years and, at the least, take the issue seriously. After weeks of turning their backs on soldiers exposed to human, chemical, and toxic...
View ArticleCommentary|‘Lordy’ There are Tapes, Toilets, and Search Warrants
Since the legal FBI search—not a raid—was revealed to have taken place at the Trump property in Mar-a-Lago, my phone has rung off the hook; what do you think, what did they get, who ratted him out?...
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