I had just sat down with my notes for writing this column when the news came through that journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort had been arrested in Minnesota. My notes were from a luncheon I had attended the previous day. National Association of Black Journalists hall of fame columnist Betty ...
The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to "hold government accountable" when the governing comes from ...
My fellow Americans, this 4th of July, our 250th year as a country, We the People will be celebrating - A lot of blood, sweat and tears have been spent. Now we have a fascist in the White House, who is tearing this country apart, along with our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Freedom of Press, and even trying to go after our right to vote this mid-term election, year of 2026. This idiot still thinks he won the 2020 election, after losing 60 cases in court saying otherwise. Now he's tampering with the ballots in Georgia after getting caught asking for ...
I am old. There, I said it. It’s taken 73 years to realize I am much closer to the end than the beginning. All my life I have been too busy to even think about being part of history instead of part of the future. So, I ask myself why am I so concerned about what our country ‘s future could ...
Americans are often warned about the dangers of overreaction, hysteria or xenophobia, and rightly so. But there is an equal danger in denial. What the country has witnessed over the past several years is not a series of disconnected curiosities, nor the product of political imagination. It is ...
Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats -- a ...
