Posts in category Opinion

If you are black and live in South Florida, then you know that too many inner-city deaths are attributable to HIV-AIDS. Except for those who …

When you are told that what you see and know as real is not reality, you, my friends, are victims of what is euphemistically called …

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is the first ecosystem restoration project of such great magnitude ever undertaken, not only in the United States, but …

My number-one columnist is Leonard Pitts Jr., and he has been that way since I “discovered” him. But my memory seems fogged on when that …

As a young boy growing up in Harlem, I got great African history lessons from the street speakers and book stores on 125th Street. If …

As a kid, I had it all wrong. So many people around me at various times just didn’t look like the Indians of the Americas. …

Already a skilled pianist who played the European classical repertoire with ease, Condoleezza Rice defined her adult life when she took a class in the …

Unfortunately for black people, too many so-called “black leaders” are actually of poor quality, in other words, worthless.  You see, that means that they are …

What is commonplace yet so strange about America, a bastion of freedom and democracy – and teacher of such to the world – is its …

It has been four months since the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States of America. That’s one third of a year. …