List/Grid Author Archives: Leonard Pitts / Syndicated Columnist
Let’s Talk About Terror Threat From Right
Can we finally say the thing we have not said so far? Last week, a white supremacist shot up a Sikh ...
Return to Greatness Takes Work
Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world? The question proceeds, of course, from ...
As Facts Die, They’re Reborn as Delusional Dogma
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will ...
The Speech NAACP Would Love To Hear From Romney
Dear Mitt Romney: I was pleased to hear that you have accepted an invitation to speak in July before ...
Dark Side of Internet Calls Its Promise Into Question
Steve Blake of the Los Angeles Lakers missed what would have been the winning shot in a critical gam ...
The No. 1 Victim of ‘Get Tough’ Laws Is Justice
So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding-heart liberal ...
Do the Crime, Do the Time, but Punishment Never Ends
I promised Russell I would ask you something. We met last week in a medium-security correctional fac ...
In War on Drugs There Is No Justice, Only Misery
If President Obama had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. So the president famously said. And ...
List of Words Is What’s Offensive
Warning: This column contains language some readers may find unsuitable for children. Parental guida ...
Victim of Society Living in Fear
One month later, some of us fail to understand what this is about. One month later, some of us are u ...
Stereotypes Are Prisons We Allow Ourselves To Be Put Into
An open letter to African-American young people: So, have you caught "Lin-sanity" yet? M ...
A Scrubbing for ‘Black’ History
A story for Black History Month. Bryan Stevenson is the director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a ...
