This year, we have a black man, a white woman, a Mormon, a thrice-married Catholic and an ordained Baptist minister all running for president. What a country. Yes, we have really come a long way, baby. ...more

January 31, 2008

The other day the Pinellas County School Board agreed to a student assignment plan that will steer students to schools closer to home beginning with the 2008-09 school year. As a result, the county joins hundreds of other school districts that have been freed from desegregation court orders, most of which seemed to emphasize the co-mingling of black and white students more than the quality of the education they were receiving. ...more

December 26, 2007

Oliver Brown was angry. His daughter, Linda, had been denied admission to Sumner Elementary, an all-white school four blocks from his house in Topeka, Kan., because she was black. The board of education ordered her to Monroe Elementary, an all-black school two miles away. Worse still, she didn't get bused and had to walk. ...more

December 9, 2007

Black America has been on the march quite a bit lately. ...more

October 26, 2007