Chat live with Leonard Pitts Jr. from Noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays, or submit questions ahead of time.
Leonard Pitts Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. He is the author of the novel, Before I Forget. His column runs every Sunday and Wednesday. Forward From This Moment, a collection of his columns, was released in 2009.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he wrote a column on the terrorist attacks that received a huge response from readers who deluged him with more than 26,000 e-mails. It was posted on the Internet, chain-letter style. Read the column and others on the topic of September 11.
You can also read Pitts' series, What Works?, a series of columns about programs anywhere in the country that show results in improving the lives of black children.
Leonard also wrote the 2008 series I Am A Man, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
Email Leonard at lpitts@MiamiHerald.com or visit his website at www.leonardpittsjr.com
Really? Seriously?
In a recent column, I announced a giveaway of 50 copies of The New Crow by Michelle Alexander. Twelve thousand entries later, the winners have been chosen. Here’s the list. If you are a winner, the book should be in your mailbox shortly.
This was for us.
A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, we have only about 550 with which to appraise a picture that has raised eyebrows across the country: In it, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is seen wagging her finger in President Obama’s face during his visit to her state last week.
In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.
I got my first job when I was 12. The deacons at my church paid me $2 a week to keep it swept and mopped.
You might call this a requiem for reverence.
Nearly 30 years ago Greg told me how it was, cutting the ears off dead men.
We gather here today to parse the meaning of “boo.”
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
A thin fragment of moon stood watch that Christmas Eve as the president of the United States and the prime minister of Great Britain came out onto the south portico of the White House. They were there to light the national Christmas tree — and to speak a holiday greeting to an uncertain world.
Let the first word be one of compassion..
Let’s talk about the smallness first.
A menacing crowd of protesters had encircled police and they had no choice but to defend themselves with pepper spray. Or at least, that is the story campus cops at UC Davis initially told.
You likely remember the 3 a.m. phone call.
This is not about your neighborhood.
So they did the right thing. Belatedly.
The Q&A with Leonard Pitts for today at 1 p.m. has been canceled but will return next week.
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