In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: For introverts, working alone works best
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
It’s not just a women’s issue.
NEWS COLUMNIST
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
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In My Opinion
Lessons from MLK to Brendon Ayanbadejo on gay rights
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
“Now is the time…” — Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts: Voting Rights Act not a ‘racial entitlement’
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt. “White Power,” it said.
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In My Opinion
Going beyond edgy — and falling off the cliff
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
The tweet went as follows:
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts: A baby, the N word and a slap for Jonah Bennett
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
“The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.”
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts: On use of drones, Obama overreaches
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
If it is true, as the writer Samuel Johnson once said, that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel,” then the dictionary must be the first.
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In My Opinion
Chris Christie slim down? Fat chance
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
So it turns out Chris Christie is fat.
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts: Can GOP end the ‘carnival of the crazy’?
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Maybe the party is finally over.
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In My Opinion
Gun debate should be about facts, not fantasy
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
You remember that serious conversation we were going to have about guns? Here’s how serious it has turned out to be.
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts: On guns, conservatives rewrite, disrespect African-American history
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed.
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In My Opinion
Beyoncé lip-syncing flap and the virtues of authenticity
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term last week.
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Leonard Pitts Jr. | In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Manti Te’o story offers lessons: Better connected, farther apart
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
You are missing the point.
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
End War on Drugs to honor King
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Dear Mr. President:
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: A fix for poisonous politics
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Last week, at a meeting in New York, it was announced that a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers have agreed to get together once in awhile and chat. This made news nationwide.
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In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Pitts: Cornball ideas about ‘blackness’
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
I suddenly find myself concerned about my blackness.
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In My Opinion
NRA puts one nation under the gun
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Everybody’s got a pistol. This must really please the NRA. – from Gun by Gil Scott-Heron
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