Nate Parker’s contrition for sexual misconduct seems genuine although belated.
Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts: The right may have broken reality, but it’s up to everybody to repair it
A generation has come to age with ignorance, intransigence and incoherence as the norm.
Leonard Pitts: Explosion of Milwaukee violence shows frustration of African Americans
Though a shooting by a city police officer might well have been justified, the black community is tired of waiting for change.
Leonard Pitts: Can the truth still be true when you don’t want to believe it?
The (incorrect) belief that crime is on the rise shows how much we cling to our views rather than reflect on the biases that cloak reality.
Leonard Pitts: Racism tied to misuse of power assaults blacks across the spectrum
Unchecked police power that goes unpunished can lead to brutality that is verbal as well as physical.
Leonard Pitts: Violence makes itself the focus and robs the cause of forward progress
We have to move forward or remain stuck in a place of rage. And rage only rends and destroys.
Leonard Pitts: America’s racial inequality more pervasive than even recent events show
In virtually every field of endeavor and in the justice system, African-Americans remain at a disadvantage.
Leonard Pitts: Shadow of 1930s Germany looms over America in the 2010s
Some new calamity – inconceivable to us now – seems certain if Donald Trump is elected president.
Leonard Pitts: We’ve failed gun victim Sherdavia Jenkins, and other children like her
Sadly, our nation protects the right to bear arms more than it does its young and adult citizens.
Leonard Pitts: Violence against Trump won’t solve what’s eating America
Donald Trump’s noxious views can’t be assassinated, because only one thing can kill bad ideas.