Leonard Pitts Jr.

Conservatives have a special purgatory for uppity Black women who dare question America's founding myths. New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones — her Pulitzer Prize-winning "1619 Project" centralized slavery in...

So what will you do after democracy dies? Who will we be after democracy dies? After democracy dies, will we remember the country we had? Will we remember all that...

You didn't see what you thought you saw. You got it wrong, you misunderstood. Your memory is playing tricks. But who can blame you? It was so long ago. We're...

Fifty years ago. Left-wing terrorists exploded a bomb at the U.S. Capitol. An Army officer was convicted in the massacre of civilians at My Lai. Vietnam chewed up another 2,414...

Thirty years ago, when I was still a music critic, I received a letter from a lady who informed me in no uncertain terms that I didn't know what I...

America is on trial. Or at least, that is the conviction of many observers as Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, faces judge and jury in the death...

And so this is Christmas. So sang John Lennon in 1971. The Vietnam War took 2,414 American lives that year, so the song was a prayer of harmony and peace...

Forgive me for being the ant at the picnic. Certainly, this is a glad moment, an ecstatic and delirious moment. The election of 2020 has ended at last. Joe Biden...

"Are you not entertained?" — Maximus, in "Gladiator" It helps if you think of it as a show. Certainly, that's the way the man in the middle of it does....