Though blacks face brutality first and worst, the human rights issue extends to everyone.
Leonard Pitts
Leonard Pitts: The president’s attention advances one small step for justice
Credit President Obama for visiting a prison, endorsing reforms and freeing some nonviolent drug offenders.
Leonard Pitts: Bill Cosby’s public moralizing becomes tool to expose his drug, sex secrets
A judge cites the comedian’s frequent exhortations to do the right thing in releasing damaging testimony from 2005.
Leonard Pitts: Trump’s ugly assessment of Mexican border crossers? We’ve heard it before
Republican indignation is hypocritical given the party’s positions on illegal immigrants in the past.
Leonard Pitts: President Obama summons ‘Amazing Grace’ in South Carolina eulogy
A reformed slave trader’s hymn stands the test of time at the service for Clementa Pinckney.
Leonard Pitts: Don’t let denial obscure real motivation behind Charleston church massacre
Dylann Roof said he wanted to shoot black people. You don’t get plainer than that.
Leonard Pitts: Perception as much a component of race as one’s actual ethnicity
After all, Rachel Dolezal didn’t just try to pass herself off as black. She got away with it.
Leonard Pitts: ‘Briefcase’ treats poor families as entertainment
With 1 in 7 Americans living in poverty, shame on CBS for exploiting this tragedy.
Leonard Pitts: Social conservatism finally seen for the con job it’s always been
We know, after all, through bitter experience what happens when you pit us against them. Nobody wins.
Leonard Pitts: Republican who scorned ‘Obamacare’ now finds he desperately needs it
On top of serious medical issues, he’s also taking heat from donors for his party’s health care politics.