Opinions
Maya Angelou: 'My mother's love liberated me'
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK - At 85 years old, Dr. Angelou confessed to me that she’d tried to write this book years ago but never could...
Crispus Attucks: Honoring a revolutionary hero
OPINION - Memorial Day is just as important to African-Americans as it is to any other group. Perhaps it is even more special, when we remember the special, and often forgotten sacrifices, our ancestors made...
Why Richie Havens will be missed
OPINION - Havens more than showed that with his music and his never tiring dedication and passion to the cause of peace and civil rights. He was truly the universal man...
What the late Chinua Achebe meant to Nigeria
OPINION - The Nigerian political establishment’s eagerness to identify with Achebe is ironic, given that he despised the guys who run the show so profoundly that he firmly rejected, on two occasions (in 2004 and 2011), the awards they offered him...
Doug Williams' historic Super Bowl revisited 25 years later
OPINION - To some degree, Williams’ victory in Super Bowl XXII shattered racial stereotypes about the ability of black athletes to excel in such a position...
Myrlie and Medgar Evers’ civil rights struggle still matters today
OPINION - Perhaps it seems that President Barack Obama is simply honoring the fifty-year anniversary of the death of Medgar Evers -- with no greater symbolism implied -- by inviting his widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration...
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