List/Grid Author Archives: Leonard Pitts / Syndicated Columnist
Jim Crow Is Alive, Well in Voting Law
GOP-controlled states doing their best to set elections back 100 years
Light of 70 Years Ago Still Glows
A thin fragment of moon stood watch that Christmas Eve as the president of the United States and the ...
Um, Officer? You Work for Us
A menacing crowd of protesters had encircled police and they had no choice but to defend themselves ...
The Promise That Became a Lie
Once upon a time, there was a boy who channeled the gods. He invoked them through his feet, moving w ...
Hallelujah! We Got Our Jobs Back From Those Illegals
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few." - Matthew 9:37 Good news. The j ...
Iraq’s Over; We Shouldn’t Have Been There
Eight years ago on a night in March, they interrupted our regularly scheduled programs for a breakin ...
Occupy Needs a Concrete Message To Sustain Battle
"You say you want a revolution?" - The Beatles By one measure at least, the movemen ...
What Occupy Protests Lack in Focus Made Up in Portent
Five dollars? Really? To use your own money? Wow. Bank of America's decision to impose that f ...
Is Suicide Real Enough for Viewers?
One imagines the promo will pretty much write itself. "Don't miss a mo ...
War on Drugs Such a Failure, Even NAACP Says It
There was a quake last week, but you likely didn't feel it. See, this particular quake was not ...
Bin Laden, It Seems, Was Less Shaman, More Shyster
One thinks of that scene from "The Wizard of Oz" where Toto pulls back the curtain and t ...
