Everyone’s an expert now. Ain’t that so? Well, at least everyone has an expert sitting in his cellphone. Ask a question. Any question, really. What team won the 1946 Negro Leagues World Series? What led to the 1915 war in Gallipoli? Where’s Gallipoli anyway? How do I shed 10 pounds of blubber around my waistline? How do I save for
It’s good to make some noise now and then, but what noise you make ought to be worth people’s time to hear. And there has been a lot of the latter about Tuskegee University and its decision to reset policies about a couple of matters, which include how students dress. Tuskegee President Mark A. Brown declared bonnets, du-rags and pajamas
I think historic League Park has no future as long as Councilwoman Stephanie Howse-Jones has a say. What Howse-Jones knows about ballparks and baseball can’t fill a thimble. She made that fact plain to me last month at a community meeting in her ward. I asked her point blank what Parks and Recreation, the city department that runs League Park,
I always think it's unwise to put too high an expectation on others, because when I do, I’ll often come away disappointed. I made that mistake with the Poetry Slam, which I teamed with my brother and nephew to hold at John Hay High School last month. Now, others played a role in supporting the spoken-word skills of 10 teenagers,
I'd call it easy to tell somebody else what to do with his life, because the advice brings no consequences to you. Then again, the person you’re telling what to do has zero obligation to heed you. That’s the case with Black athletes whom the NAACP and high-profile activists like Dr. Harry Edwards are urging to boycott football programs in
I hate waste, particularly when the waste is the result of governmental indifference. In Cleveland, the best example of that waste is League Park, which the city used over $6.3 million to save from demolition. The ballpark would be history like Shibe Park, Ebbets Field and Crosley Field if not for the hardheadedness of Councilwoman Fannie Lewis, who dreamed of
I found so little I agreed with Charlie Kirk about that I’m reluctant to mention him or point to anything he said. Kirk held a perspective that ran counter to mine, but he had something to say, whether I disagreed with it him or not. He was right about one thing, though: America ought not be meddling in the affairs
We’ve finished the first semester of 2025-26 academic year, but we still find ourselves struggling to fix what the covid crisis wrought for students. Ask almost anybody in the education biz, and they’ll tell you straightaway: Students have learned less since the pandemic. While we applauded efforts to keep students on track, we must boo the results of remote instruction.
People with good hearts have stayed in the background. They’ve tried to distance themselves from the political chaos, because, I reckon, they felt the chaos in America would resolve itself. They were wrong. Our democracy is in disarray, and men with the loudest megaphones and the most money are steering it toward fascism or whatever horrific governance they want to
PARIS — I had 12 hours left on my eight-day holiday here, and I figured I was going to spend most of those hours sleeping as I prepared to return to The States. I almost didn’t want to go. For I discovered something about Paris that captivated me. In the hours before I was scheduled to leave, I’d come to
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