Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

One winter, after my wife, June, and I had visited my “snowbird” parents in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, we set out from there to make the long road trip to the Washington, D.C., area by way of Atlanta. On our second day of travel, soon after heading...

Will Racism Always Be an Elephant in the Room?

Our half-century commemorations of the courage and accomplishments of the civil rights struggle have appropriately reminded us of the valiant heroes, sung and unsung, of that historic era. The reflections and discussions accompanying those remembrances have also...

Thank you, President Obama

I’ve spent a good part of today sitting in a hospital room with my oldest son, who will leave in a couple of days with an astronomical hospital bill and no major medical insurance to apply to it. Because of pre-existing medical conditions, he has been unable to...

Winter’s a Wonderland Unless You Have No Home

Like most kids, when I was a child growing up in rural Mississippi, I used to pray for snow. Even if it looked like snow, they would cancel school. I remember we were once sent home early because it got cloudy. That is a true story. I lived more than 20 miles from the...