Black history
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2022
Commentary: President Biden must honor his word to Black voters, Dr. King’s legacy
Candidate Biden pledged that diversity, equity and inclusion – especially voting rights – would be part of his platform. But his follow-through is unimpressive.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Black Americans shared Sidney Poitier with the world, but he was all ours
The groundbreaking actor, who died last week, embodied Blackness with an unyielding insistence upon his own – and therefore, upon our – dignity and worth.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2021
Commentary: White supremacists are using an old playbook, but so are the lawyers fighting them
We have shown how to use the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 against extremists.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2021
As Washington’s farming techniques evolved, so did his views on slavery
What the first president's own documents reveal about his life and work as a farmer.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2021
Commentary: A boycott of the Olympics won’t force China to change
Neither a diplomatic boycott, nor refusing to send American athletes, will improve Beijing’s human rights record.
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PublishedNovember 11, 2021
Commentary: Colin Powell’s funeral was a missed opportunity to unite the country
Collective mourning has long brought Americans together.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2021
Collard greens: From down South to Down East
Some days, it is easy being green.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2021
Maine Voices: Picturing Macon Bolling Allen – the mysterious disappearance of a trailblazer’s portrait
The nation’s first Black lawyer was admitted to the bar in Maine. The fate of a ‘fine oil painting’ of him, once housed at the Cumberland County Courthouse, is unknown.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2021
Leonard Pitts: You can starve an ideal for only so long before you kill it
On Biden’s watch, images of Border Patrol agents running down Haitian migrants are both appalling and disappointing.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2021
Commentary: How this enslaved man’s story could persuade more Black Americans to get vaccinated
Highlighting the historic role of an African man named Onesimus, who introduced the idea of inoculation in early America, offers a source of pride.
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