Time For A Timeout
“Hey Chicago, you want some of this?” he asked me. Michael Jordan and I had met a few times in Chicago, but I was…
Space Traders and Corona Chaos Crusaders
Derrick Bell in 1992 published Faces at the Bottom of the Well – The Permanence of Racism. One short story embedded in Bell’s opus…
The First Dunce And the Last Dance
This was the American landscape that lay open to the coronavirus. In prosperous cities, an affluent class of globally connected desk workers were blithely…
Stay Safe, Stay Home…But Stay Focused
Given the changes to our daily lives – churches closed, services on-line, working remotely – it’s hard not to use an expletive when thinking…
Biden, Blacks and Corona
Black voters resuscitated Joe Biden’s campaign for the presidency. Is it not, then, high time to consider some quid pro quo? That Blacks rescued…
Mourning Mindful Media During “Of Color” History Month
An Irish classmate of mine at De LaSalle High School once told me that his dad read the newspaper from back-to-front. The old man…
The First And The Worst On The High Court
The current theatre of the absurd, with its cast of characters ranging from an unfit President of the United States to his cadre of…
“Just Mercy” A Poignant Film On Black Incarceration
It was slavery that gave America an abiding fear of Black people and a taste for violent punishment – a twisted inheritance that continues…
At Last: The Hideous Truth About Slavery
After my third visit to the slavery exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C. recently, I was reminded…
Democrats Dilemma
Blues legend Bobby Bland often played a tune called Keep it a Secret. It has to do with a married man and his outside…
Zora & Langston
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal By Yuval Taylor Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (March 26, 2019) Hardcover: 304 pages,…
When Whites Make The Case For Reparations…
Columnist David Brooks has joined Paul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo and C.S. Lewis of Belfast in making one of the most profound conversions…