Traitor Anna Morgan-Lloyd asked the federal court Wednesday for mercy. She got it. For her role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, a federal judge slapped Morgan-Lloyd with probation and fined her $500. Of course, the judge threw in 120 hours of community service, but that’s what a person gets for shoplifting, isn’t it? Newspapers like […]
Americans are celebrating Juneteenth as a national holiday. President Joe Biden ensured it Friday when he signed legislation Congress had passed earlier. Now, I make no big to-do over giving workers another holiday. In my opinion, Americans spend too much time in the workplace compared to workers in Europe, so they could use one more […]
Few things are worse than a white elephant, particularly when the elephant comes with a $6.3 million price on its backside. That is the money that went into League Park, a historic ballpark in the heart of a Black neighborhood. League Park spent almost 40 years in decline, and it might have collapsed altogether were […]
Generation Z’ers had their hallelujah moment when they marched into college auditoriums over the past month with Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” playing in the background. Now, they can tuck their degrees, embossed proof of educational success, into dresser drawers or mount them on someone’s wall. Off these “zoomers” head to a full-time job or […]
A friend called and asked me had I heard. “Heard what?” “Aaron died.” Amid all the tumult in the United States, Henry Aaron’s death Friday added to the nation’s misery index. While Aaron wasn’t the face of Major League Baseball, he could have been, which is America’s melancholy. For if any star deserved its reverence, […]
Whatever naiveté we carried with us about our republic we can ditch now after four years of Donald Trump, whose failed presidency put an end to this age of innocence. One writer for The Atlantic said it well when he wrote: “America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, […]
Donald Trump used bold promises in 2016 to coax votes from Black folk who should have known better. Yes, they had reasons to fret about the Democratic Party and how it has often disregarded their concerns. Trump seized on this discontent. He told Black voters: “What do you have to lose?” They answered: Nothing. His […]
Days before the General Election, I have no idea how it will sort out. I’m praying that Joe Biden will replace No. 45 and take over the Oval Office, but I cannot be certain Biden will. What I do know is this: Whoever sits in the White House in 2021 will have a mountain of problems, […]
Listen to the science deniers in the Trump administration, and you have to wonder what the bojangling brother who runs the Department of Housing and Urban Development thinks of them. Remember, before he sold his soul to Satan, Ben Carson was a physician, a revered neurosurgeon who entered the public sector with sterling credentials. Carson […]
Time will deal people sorrow when they least expect it, and one of those unexpected times came Friday night: Chadwick Boseman died. He was 43. Few actors of color have played the high-profile roles that Boseman did. From Thurgood Marshall to Jackie Robinson to James Brown to Black Panther, perhaps the man’s role of roles, Boseman […]