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 suspect cultural anthropologists of a certain age look back now and swear something awful happened to their music. They probably say their tastes got hijacked between the 1970s and the millennium. But I can tell them precisely what was taken: real voices, real instruments and, well, real talent. More than 50 years ago, Baby Boomers turned up the volume on
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 know millions of TV viewers watched last May as a seventh-grader from Plano, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, spelling éclaircissement to secure the title. Faizan Zaki’s mastery of words like “promyshleennikor,” “autochthonous” and “insouciant” show the remarkable results that come from a true commitment to one’s craft. Faizan's triumph should remind us of the incredible talent
I can’t say enough about how tiring it is to jump aboard an airplane at 6 a.m. and take a trip somewhere you’ve never been. I guess in an ideal world you could teleport yourself wherever on the planet you want to go, but would that be as much fun as the long lines you face in going through Customs?
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
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Disrespect can follow Black men like smoke from a bonfire. No matter where they find themselves, they morph into apparitions, invisible men easily seen through. I say this after another restaurant nightmare, which didn’t occur on American soil. I was on holiday here, as my Canadian friends put it, and went for dinner one evening. It was
The nation is celebrating a holiday that most people have no clue what it means. At its best, Juneteenth is a muted occasion … tinged more in sadness than in joy. And in this era when Black issues don’t matter, I guess how the holiday unfurled this year isn’t unexpected. For those absent an understanding of it, Juneteenth grew out
I received news Sunday night about an award I’m being given. No, I didn’t win a Pulitzer Prize, although I wouldn’t turn one down. Instead, I’m getting an award far more prestigious, because it’s coming from an organization that I’d like to think values the contributions of men (and women) who look like me. The Sam Lacy Pioneer Award is
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