February 24, 2023 In an interview shortly after President Jimmy Carter lost his bid for re-election, his wife,Rosalynn, was asked what she thought of the new president, Ronald Reagan. With aneerie prescience, she said, “I think the President makes us comfortable with ourprejudices.”In 1976, Carter’s election offered the possibility of a new America heading into…
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February 17, 2023 MOBILE, AL. — As I sit here, my computer screen facing the window, I see the stormclouds gathering. I am trying to determine whether my daughter will be able to walkhome from her school three blocks away or whether I will have to pick her up againbecause of a severe thunderstorm. As…
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February 10, 2023 With all the yelling, jeering and booing at the State of the Unionaddress — all the disruptive antics from ill-mannered andimmature members of Congress — viewers needed a sweetmoment that came in the latter half of the speech: the introductionof Maurice and Kandice Barron, parents of a four-year-old cancersurvivor. President Joe Biden…
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February 2, 2023 At the funeral of her son, Tyre Nichols, RowVaughn Wellswas a portrait of dignity and restraint, as she has been over thelast several weeks. As she spoke, tears rolled down her cheeksand her voice broke, but she managed to convey purpose,insisting that Congress pass a federal police reform bill.“We need to take…
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January 27, 2023 Even as Black History Month is about to begin, the war onteaching black history has opened a new front in Florida. Thatstate’s governor, the shamelessly ambitious Ron DeSantis, hasbanned a proposed high school Advanced Placement course inAfrican-American studies.As a Republican fixed on winning the White House, DeSantis hasbeen traveling the low road…
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