It sure didn’t take long for right-wing media figures to criticize the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner was released on Dec. 8 by the Russian government as part of a negotiated prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the merchant of death.” Since the deal was made by the Biden administration, […]

One of my fondest childhood memories of Christmas in the 1970’s was riding around in the family station wagon, “Bessie,” to look at Christmas lights while I whined to my parents about needing a snack – again. There was something magical about a familiar evening landscape transformed to a radiant wonderland at the expense of […]

Raphael Warnock’s Senate runoff win against Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia last week was a big deal in a lot of ways. For one thing, Warnock, the pastor of the storied Ebenezer Baptist Church (once ministered by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) is now the first Black man to be elected to a […]

Too bad Paul Whelan is not Black or gay or someone who openly hates America. Too bad he’s white, male and a former U.S. Marine. Otherwise, he would not still be rotting in jail in Russia on trumped-up espionage charges. Also otherwise, Whelan would have been the American prisoner in Russia who was exchanged this […]