It seems the church is shrinking. The mosque and synagogue, too, for that matter. Not that this is breaking news. It has long been known that the […]
Author: Leonard Pitts Jr.
The victims of this war don’t get a wall
“This is a violent civilization — if civilization’s where I am.” — Gil Scott-Heron, “Gun” Alexis Knutson doesn’t want to see her friend reduced. That friend, she […]
Republicans consider ballots more dangerous than bullets
On the issue of guns, John Kavanagh has a record unblemished by sanity. Indeed, a scroll through Vote Smart, the nonpartisan, nonprofit voter information clearinghouse, suggests the […]
When facts cease to matter, consequences do as well
My brother-in-law died of hogwash. Another brother-in-law, a sister-in-law, two daughters-in-law, two cousins and several grandchildren are all recovering from hogwash. My wife spent a week in […]
America spends a lot of time trying to kill Democracy
For a nation that supposedly believes in democracy, America spends a lot of time trying to kill it. In the postbellum era, white Democrats — the conservatives […]
Black history is America’s history. It will not be erased
Let’s try an experiment. For 30 years, let’s require that young people are taught nothing about the moon. Let’s scrub Earth’s satellite from books and online articles. […]
‘I do not believe unity is possible’ — but Joe Biden does
Uh-oh. Joe Biden is talking unity again. It came last week at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee in response to a question about how he will […]
For African Americans, faith is not confined to hope of heaven
George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin on a Saturday night in 2013. The next morning, I went to church wearing a hoodie. This […]
This is not a feel-good story; it’s a moral-failures story
by Leonard Pitts Jr. This is not a feel-good story. Of course, it’s easy to see why it has been positioned as one. Certainly, it contains all […]
