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Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as an associate justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger at the Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 25, 1981.

Column: President Joe Biden’s risky court pick isn’t that risky

January 28, 2022 at 5:08 p.m.

Selective memory is alive and well in politics. You can hear it in the predictable howls of protest and gnashing of teeth following President Joe Biden's promise to — surprise,...

The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 8, 2020. The Supreme Court agreed on Jan. 24, 2022, to decide whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are lawful, calling into question the fate of affirmative action in higher education.

Column: Maybe ‘supply-side’ affirmative action would work better

January 25, 2022 at 5:04 p.m.

Could this be the beginning of the end for affirmative action? We've heard that question before, especially after the Supreme Court's 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision narrowly upheld the practice...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill on Jan. 19, 2022.

Column: Yes, Mitch McConnell, African Americans are Americans too

January 21, 2022 at 5:10 p.m.

On the matter of whether he knows that African Americans are Americans too, let's give Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell the benefit of our doubt. Yet he seemed to express...

Donald Trump supporters gather at a rally held by the former president at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on Jan. 15, 2022, in Florence, Arizona.

Column: Donald Trump rallies are like story time — a horror

January 18, 2022 at 5:43 p.m.

Gather around, children. It's Uncle Donald's story time again. In his first rally of the new year, former President Donald Trump didn't offer much fresh material until he turned full...

Andria Derio, who opposes teaching Critical Race Theory in school, wears a sign stating she will remove her children from the district should the ban not pass before the Placentia-Yorba Linda School Board on Nov. 16, 2021, in Yorba Linda, California.

Column: MLK’s dream in the era of MAGA and CRT? Still a dream.

January 14, 2022 at 3:57 p.m.

Pardon me if you've heard this story (I tell it a lot), but Martin Luther King Jr. Day always reminds me of how I learned the word "segregation." I was...

A supporter of President Donald Trump carries a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol building in Washington, as a mob of his supporters protest the presidential election results, on Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: Another Civil War? Sounds far-fetched, until it isn’t

January 11, 2022 at 5:06 p.m.

What's going on? I've been hearing so much lately about our national political divide that it brings a novelty song from my 1950s childhood back to mind: "Save Your Confederate...

Sidney Poitier stars in 'The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn,' a TV film that tells the story of a carpenter who has spent his long life in a small Southern community where he is respected for both his craftsmanship and his personal philosophy.

Column: Sidney Poitier left unifying messages for our divided times

January 8, 2022 at 2:49 p.m.

How jarring, yet poignantly appropriate it seems for Sidney Poitier to die at age 94 on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol. With his...

Rep. Bobby Rush holds up an article from the baiduhai during a May 2007 hearing at which Nancy Nord, acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, testified before a House subcommittee in Washington.

Column: Bobby Rush finds life after the Black Panthers as a voice for change

January 4, 2022 at 5:02 p.m.

When I heard that Rep. Bobby Rush had decided to call it quits after an impressive three decades of service in Congress, I was reminded — to borrow my favorite...

Framed in a parking garage, the Chicago skyline is seen at dusk on Dec. 16, 2021.

Column: Another Great Migration? Thanks, but I still like Chicago.

December 31, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Will the last Black person to leave Chicago please turn out the lights? That thought comes to mind whenever I see headlines or stories about Chicago losing its Black population....

People take photos at Cape Town's St. Georges Cathedral, where a Wall of Remembrance for South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been set up, on Dec. 28, 2021.

Column: We have a lot to learn from Archbishop Tutu. Even from his mistakes.

December 29, 2021 at 3:29 p.m.

As tributes poured in from world leaders for Archbishop Desmond Tutu after the Nobel Peace Prize laureate died Sunday at age 90, so did some heated criticism. "Can I remind...

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