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Obama Luck--a Three-Minute Fiction 5 Nov 2012 | 08:39 pm
I've been planning to try my hand at NPR's Three-Minute Fiction since it first started. Each time, before I knew it, the deadline had come and gone. It almost got away from me this year. But on the da...
Sikh Slayings: White Anxiety Gone Extreme 10 Aug 2012 | 11:34 pm
Here's my Root commentary on the Sikh tragedy. No more commentary here. It speaks for itself. Sikh Slayings: White Anxiety Gone Extreme America's browning drives a backlash that found its most virulen...
What would Allah say about Chick-Fil-A? 3 Aug 2012 | 12:28 am
I’d heard about Chick-Fil-A long before I tasted it. It was being touted by a few of my friends as so good it would make you want to slap your momma. Last year, while driving out east, my wife, Joyce....
Obama's straight walking, double talking Urban League speech 27 Jul 2012 | 02:06 am
The Root called me last night to ask if I could do a quick turnaround commentary on the president's speech at the National Urban League. The is what I wrote. Obama's Careful Urban League Speech The ...
Discouraging Development: Republicans scheme to suppress vote 26 Jul 2012 | 04:08 am
The conservatives are up to their old tricks. I'm calling them out in my latest commentary for The Root. Déjà Vu in Texas Voter-ID Fight The Lone Star state is among several places where new legislat...
ObamaCare The Game could battle the evil Echo Chamber 29 Jun 2012 | 11:57 pm
While attending the National Association of Black Journalists convention last week in New Orleans, I came up with an idea as to how the Obama Administration could help us understand the historic healt...
The POTUS sings the blues, Blue marries his bass player 23 Feb 2012 | 10:00 am
Barack Obama sang the blues last night. I saw it coming. When Chicago’s blues icon Buddy Guy started egging the president to join in on Sweet Home Chicago, I figured I was about to witness an encore s...
Ten years after 9/11, America needs 911 8 Sep 2011 | 03:50 am
On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, the Chicago Sun-Times assigned all its Sunday op-ed columnists to write on the subject. Below is what I wrote. I've cut and pasted it from a wingnut websi...
'Fox And Friends' Defends News Corp. In Phone Hacking Scandal (VIDEO) 16 Jul 2011 | 07:07 am
Fox and Friends clumsily defended News Corp. on Friday morning, inaccurately defending the company as a victim of hacking instead of the one that did the hacking. Host Steve Doocy said, “It’s too ... ...
Carol Moseley Braun: A mayoral foot race? 15 Jan 2011 | 07:42 am
The Root asked me to write a piece on Carol Moseley Braun's run in the Chicago mayoral race. I talked to half a dozen Chicagoans who are hip-deep in the city's politics. None had anything glowing to s...
