Leonard Pitts – Page 35 – The Portland Press Herald

Leonard Pitts: Baltimore woman who slapped son not a symbol, just a protective mother

by Leonard Pitts May 6, 2015May 5, 2015

It wasn’t ideal parenting, but it did show a resolve to keep her child from ending up dead like Freddie Gray.

by Leonard Pitts April 22, 2015April 21, 2015

Britt McHenry’s ranting at a tow yard clerk shows the pitiful side of our society’s celebrity worship.

by Leonard Pitts April 8, 2015April 7, 2015

When you have taken an execrable stand and been repudiated, either change your stand or shut up.

by Leonard Pitts April 1, 2015April 1, 2015

Efforts to make church attendance mandatory and protect ‘religious freedom’ masquerade as true faith.

A.M. Stroud sent the wrong man to prison for 30 years. The man is free now, but what if he had been executed?

by Leonard Pitts March 18, 2015April 1, 2015

The Florida governor’s ban on global warming vocabulary is a way to avoid a debate he can’t win and doesn’t want to have.

Bill O’Reilly may be a pundit, but that doesn’t release him from the obligation to be factual.

by Leonard Pitts March 4, 2015April 1, 2015

The Temptations created a tune that bound us together in what is now a unique way.

by Leonard Pitts February 25, 2015April 1, 2015

At least on matters of race, the erstwhile ‘America’s mayor’ has become ‘America’s batty uncle.’

by Leonard Pitts February 18, 2015April 1, 2015

The outlandish things that some Americans say and think paint an unflattering picture of our country.