by Leroy Seat | Jul 12, 2013 | Opinion
He is no longer well known in the U.S., but there was a time, especially up to the early 1940s, when Toyohiko Kagawa was the best-known Japanese in America, except for Emperor Hirohito. Kagawa was born 125 years ago on July 10, 1888. Although sickly from the time he...
by Leroy Seat | Jun 20, 2013 | Opinion
You all have probably heard the term “killing fields” used to describe the horrendous atrocities committed in Cambodia in the 1970s. And maybe most of you have seen the heart-rending movie released in 1984 with that title. “The Killing Fields”...
by Leroy Seat | Jun 12, 2013 | Opinion
She is an outstanding person whom I have come to admire a lot just this year. I am speaking about the woman who was named Myrlie Beasley after her birth in 1933 in Mississippi. In 1951, she married Medgar Evers, who became a widely known civil rights activist. Fifty...
by Leroy Seat | May 15, 2013 | Opinion
Perhaps Dr. Seuss’s most noteworthy book is “Horton Hears a Who!” (1954). It begins, On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing…enjoying the jungle’s great joys… When Horton...
by Leroy Seat | Apr 30, 2013 | Opinion
Tomorrow, the first day of May, is often called “May Day” and it has been observed as a special day in widely diverse ways. In addition, “Mayday” is an international radio and telephone signal word used as a distress call. In the northern...
