With the resignation of Justice Breyer, President Biden has his first opportunity to name a justice to the United States Supreme Court.
“I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a black woman on the Supreme Court,” Biden promised during the 2020 presidential campaign, “to make sure we, in fact…
A little girl is walking to school. She walks many blocks. Then she walks through the railroad yards. Eventually, she crosses a busy avenue, only to stand and wait. And wait. And wait, as the sun comes up, for the bus to arrive.
The bus then carries her the mile…
My father died five years ago today.
There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about him, more than once. I am the person I am — for better or worse — because of who he was. And who he raised me to be.
How to make…
The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that much of eastern Oklahoma falls within the Muscogee (Creek) Indian reservation.
The 5–4 decision, in McGirt v. Oklahoma is perhaps the significant legal victory for Native Americans in a generation. It will have broad implications for Native people who live across…
It started in the earliest days of our Republic.
First, they came for us on the Continent.
We were hunted trapped, enslaved and imported as cargo from Senegambia (today’s Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mali) and west-central Africa, including what is now Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon…
*This reflection was originally posted for Super Bowl XLV. But the message is the same in 2020 for Super Bowl LIV. So I thought to share it again.
Football is the last thing left in civilization where men can literally fling themselves bodily at one another and not be at…
Another Memorial Day is here. Cookouts. Baseball games. Parades. A…
There is so much to say about Baltimore, one week later. But this blog is about media and the power of messaging. So I confined myself, since last Monday, to writing on the power of language to divide or unite.
My last post focused on the use of…
You say, “Riot.” I say, “Unrest.”
You say, “Punk.” I say, “Protester.”
Does it really matter? What’s in a word, anyway?
A lot, actually.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the embattled mayor of Baltimore twice chose the word “Thugs,” last night on national television, to describe those who have taken to her…
I interviewed David Petraeus, in late October 2012, in his capacity as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for a gathering of leaders at the White House. I spent well over two hours with the general, first in the Green Room and then on stage, in close proximity to…
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