NEWS COLUMNIST

• No Q&A with Leonard Pitts Jr. today

  The Q&A with Leonard Pitts for today at 1 p.m. has been canceled but will return next week.

• Leonard Pitts Jr. will not host live chat June 15

• AWAY ON FURLOUGH

  Leonard Pitts Jr. will not be hosting Q & A today

• IN MY OPINION

  Don't censor Mark Twain's N word

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  While intentions to delete the N word from 'Huck Finn' are good, the fix is profoundly wrong. Here's why.

• OBAMA DEMENTIA

  Here's hoping the fever breaks soon

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  In 2003, Charles Krauthammer, a columnist and psychiatrist, coined a new term. Noting what he said was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush," Krauthammer identified a previously unknown malady he called Bush Derangement Syndrome.

• In My Opinion

  Obama’s delay on military gays puts off the inevitable

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  It’s not hard to understand why the Obama Administration went to court Thursday seeking a stay of a federal injunction barring the military from enforcing “don’t ask don’t tell.”

• IN MY OPINION

  A cause worth the sacrifice and the blisters

  By LEONARD PITTS

  This is not the column I really want to write.

• INTERACTIVE Q&A

  No Leonard Pitts Jr. Q&A on Aug. 25, Sept. 1

  Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. will not be hosting the interactive Q & A as scheduled on Aug. 25 and Sept. 1.
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  GAY MARRIAGE RULING

  Who has the right to judge?

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  He had no right to judge. That, in a nutshell, is the gist of last week's uproar over a ruling by Vaughn Walker. Walker is the federal judge, originally appointed by Ronald Reagan and generally regarded, according to the Associated Press, as ``a conservative with libertarian leanings,'' who struck down Proposition 8, California's ban on same sex marriage.

• GEORGE REKERS

  A message to anti-gay psychologist George Rekers: Heal thyself

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  He purported to cure homosexual urges. But if that were possible, you'd think he'd have started with himself.

• IN MY OPINION

  Party trumps country?

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  You figure the White House is probably feeling pretty good about itself right now. After spending much of the summer as a punching bag for conservatives, Team Obama has begun throwing punches of its own. It has unleashed its marquee figures to tee off on high profile GOP personalities and institutions in a coordinated effort to marginalize the opposition.

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: We'll go forward from this moment

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  This column by Leonard Pitts Jr. was published in The Miami Herald on Sept. 12, 2001, and received an extraordinary response from readers worldwide.

• No Leonard Pitts Jr. chat today

  Leonard Pitts Jr. won't be online today. His chat will take place as usual next week, and he will answer your questions then. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

• We know what works -- now let's do it

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  This will be the last What Works column.I reserve the right to occasionally report on any program I run across that shows results in saving the lives and futures of African-American kids. But this is the last in the series I started 19 months ago to spotlight such programs.

• Separation can be a positive life development

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  PORTLAND, Ore. -- Success breeds separation.That's the thing no one tells you, the thing sometimes you don't realize, the thing that might make a child turn from his own potential. Success is like a pyramid, broad at the bottom, but narrow at the summit; the higher you go, the fewer people go with you.

• In Mississippi, echoes of a summer past

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  SUNFLOWER, Miss. -- Joaquin Burse wants to go to Harvard and be a laser tech. You might think that's a lofty goal. Truth is, you have no idea how lofty it is.

• Leave education to the principals, teachers, parents

  By LEONARD PITTS

  As I wandered about looking lost, I chanced upon a teacher who volunteered to lead me where I needed to be. When I told her why I was here -- a series of columns on What Works to change the culture of dysfunction that entraps too many African-American kids -- she told me I had come to the right place: KIPP Gaston College Preparatory and KIPP Pride, two charter schools serving 600 kids here in farm country.

• Schools where students learn

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  This, by the way, is the latest installment in What Works, my series about programs that are tackling the challenges faced by black kids. GCP and KIPP Pride certainly qualify, and Caleb Dolan, principal of GCP, wants you to know it isn't because they use selective admission to cull the cream of the crop. As public charter schools, they take students on a first-come basis. Kids come here reading below grade level. Or not reading at all.

• A 'bad idea' becomes wildly successful

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  This is a What Works column, part of my series on programs that are successfully attacking dysfunctions that plague black children. The success of East Lake suggests you can win that battle by not isolating poverty.

• Role models help rescue troubled teens

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  'I sure hope Timothy doesn't come to school today." It was when that thought came to mind, says Frederica Wilson, surveying the faces at the conference table in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools headquarters, that she knew she had a problem.

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