MiamiHerald.com: Leonard Pitts Jr.

Tim Tebow’s prayers on field: the personal versus public consumption

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:42 EST

Really? Seriously?

And the winners are . . .

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:49 EST

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.

Don Cornelius created show that helped black kids come of age

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:20 EST

This was for us.

Looking for morning in America

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00 EST

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.

Rep. Giffords’ departure a blow to democracy

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:18 EST

In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.

Practicing the politics of racial resentment

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:01 EST

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.

Strip club’s ‘I Have a dream bash’ hardens the heart

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

You might call this a requiem for reverence.

On video of Taliban corpses, let’s not be so quick to pass judgment

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:12 EST

Nearly 30 years ago Greg told me how it was, cutting the ears off dead men.

The new Jim Crow alive and thriving

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

I have something for you.

Boo! A scary word for bigots

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

We gather here today to parse the meaning of “boo.”

Life in the margins

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

So here’s how it is:

Ron Paul’s consistency doesn’t make him right

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Lessons in leadership: 70 years after Pearl Harbor

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:03 EST

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.

America's obsession with missing white women

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00 EST

Let the first word be one of compassion..

Brownback’s staff overreacted to teen’s tweet

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:40 EST

Let’s talk about the smallness first.

UC Davis police went too far

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00 EST

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.

If they only had a brain

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:17 EST

You likely remember the 3 a.m. phone call.

Trying to survive in Miami’s free-fire zone

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:27 EST

This is not about your neighborhood.

Why did it take Penn State so long?

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:15 EST

So they did the right thing. Belatedly.

On Mississippi and abortion: not always black and white

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:27 EST

Moral clarity is one of the most seductive traits of social conservatism.