Welcome to July 4th, white people’s Juneteenth. Barbecue, fireworks, patriotism. In my circle of Black friends (Black is now capitalized…
Did Russia do it? Vladimir Putin says no, and we know what that is worth. Trump: You wouldn’t do that.…
Once again Jim Kenney, Mayor Weathervane, has spun around and around and come out pointing the wrong way, in support…
Look — up in the sky (depending on where you live) — that’s not Superman, it is the Sahara sand…
In today’s effort to mansplain, or is it whitesplain?, I thought I’d bring the class up to date on some…
I am glad to see the squabbling has been reduced in recent days. This is not Facebook, and some of…
After winning his decades-long battle to end apartheid in his homeland, and becoming South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela…
No reporter can ever cover every angle of a story, even when they know them. When I wrote a few…
“End racism.” We hear the cry daily, but how? Where does racism begin? We are not born with it. Are…
In conjunction with Juneteenth, I reprise a column that ran in the Philadelphia Daily News in May 2008. It was…