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• Leonard Pitts Jr. | In My Opinion

  Leonard Pitts: On rape, ignorance again back in fashion

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or at least, that’s Rick Ross’ story and he’s sticking to it.
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  50 years after Birmingham: bigot released from crippling burden of hate

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  A few words on the death of Elwin Wilson.

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  Leonard Pitts: Bitter tears, inaction after gun violence

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Jonylah Watkins died on a Tuesday.
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  Customer service? Not when human robots answer the phone

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Dear Whoever is in Charge of Customer Service for DirecTV:

• In My Opinion | Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Leonard Pitts: It’s called living — no matter how fast it seems

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  For as much as life takes, it also gives: the solace of memories, the tough teachings of experience, the reward of grace.

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  Rob Portman’s U-turn on gay marriage

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Let there be no cheers for Rob Portman.

• In My Opinio | Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Leonard Pitts: Right to counsel? It’s stacked against the poor

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  “Make me wanna holler, way they do my life.” — Marvin Gaye, “Inner City Blues”

• In My Opinion

  Mayor Bloomberg as Dr. Doom fighting supersized sugary drinks

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Perhaps you remember when Dr. Doom conquered the world.

• In My Opinion

  Leonard Pitts: For introverts, working alone works best

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  It’s not just a women’s issue.

• 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

• 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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  Going beyond edgy — and falling off the cliff

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  The tweet went as follows:

• 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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  Pitts: What would Rush Limbaugh do?

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  Dear David from Georgia:

• 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.

• In My Opinion

  Chris Christie slim down? Fat chance

  By Leonard Pitts Jr.

  So it turns out Chris Christie is fat.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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  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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