Leonard Pitts

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by...

Everybody's got something. Maybe it's something you were born with, maybe something that happened to you, maybe something you did to yourself through bad habits or neglect. But everybody's got...

Here is what he said: "All constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be." It would seem to be a self-evident truth. After all, your First Amendment...

You want to know the worst part? It isn't the incident where a police officer stopped a man at the 207 Quickstop convenience store and threw his purchases -- cans...

Every once in a very great while, we get these people who rise above the confines of self. Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday at the age of 95, was...

I like capitalism. Specifically, I like the idea that if I write a better book, have a better idea, build a better mousetrap, I will be rewarded accordingly. A system...

The N-word again. Of course. Six years after the NAACP staged its symbolic burial, that word has proven rumors of its demise greatly exaggerated. In just the last few weeks...

I need to know how to build a bomb. This is not, I hasten to add, for my use or, indeed, for the use of any real person. Rather, it...

The film surprises you with vast silences. It is an emptiness that at first seems jarring to sensibilities trained to believe every moment must be crammed. By contrast, this movie...

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