NEWS COLUMNIST

• Academy makes the improbable possible for teens

• XY-Zone gets A's for helping at-risk kids

  AUSTIN, Texas -- Mr. Harris has a way of putting things.

• Nothing replaces family support for black kids

  One month and 1,400 e-mails later, here is a progress report on What Works.

• Harlem program forms a circle of success for kids

  The late-day sky was spitting snow. Inside the classroom, tiny black children, younger than kindergarten age, sat in a circle, legs folded "crisscross applesauce" beneath them. Soon, they would begin their French lesson, but first there was a ritual chant.

• Let's talk about what works for black children

  You and I are about to embark on something new.

• Herald columnist Pitts wins Pulitzer for commentary

  Leonard Pitts Jr., a mainstay as a news and features columnist at The Herald for 13 years, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Monday.

• Dec. 8, 2003: Cincinnati case not a tough call: Man killed self

  The coroner says he only called it homicide because he had no choice.

• Oct. 27, 2003: 'Hard-core rap' is cashing in on stereotypes

  I guess I'm obligated to be offended by this new board game. After all, Al Sharpton says I should. And not just Rev. Al, either. Many other people - including NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and radio host Tom Joyner - have pronounced themselves offended by the game. Not that I blame them. It's called Ghettopoly, a take-off on Parker Bros. venerable Monopoly. Except that this game isn't about moving a car or a top hat around the board, buying properties and landing on Boardwalk after somebody has put up a hotel.

• Oct. 20, 2003: To irate readers: Race has always benefited whites

  I guess I touched a nerve.

• Sept. 29, 2003: Faithful often give religion a bad name

  This is how you stone a woman to death. You bury her up to her neck. Then you heave stones at her head. One imagines her face slowly obliterated, her skull repeatedly broken. One imagines the process takes a long time.

• Aug. 4, 2003: Gays may be hope for marriage

  So what is it you have against gay marriage?

• July 18, 2003: High court needs supreme guidance

  Hi, God, it's me, Pat Robertson. How's everything in Heaven? Clear skies, warm sun and a gentle breeze, eh? Well, it's been raining cats and dogs here in Virginia. But I guess You already knew that, didn't You?

• June 27, 2003: Affirmative action needs a deadline

  Race matters.

• June 6, 2003: No cause justifies planting of bombs

  Ronald Smith lost an index finger and part of one thumb. Emily Lyons lost an eye. Fallon Stubbs lost her mother. The losses came not because of anything they did, nor anything they said. It was just happenstance. Just the result of being in the wrong place when bombs exploded.

• Jan. 17, 2003: Logic tells us: No death penalty

  Forgive me, but I'm about to speak heresy.

• Open casket opened eyes

  If you ever saw that picture of Emmett Till, you never forgot it.

• Leonard Pitts Jr. on terrorist attacks

  In 2001 Pitts was awarded the American Society of Newspaper Editors' top award for his commentary. In 2000 he was honored by The Society of Professional Journalists with its Fellow of the Society award, one of the highest honors the Ohio-based organization gives professional journalists. In 1993 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.

• January 19, 2002: 3 White guys raised the flag - statue should reflect that

  It was late on the afternoon of Sept. 11. The towers were down, the firefighters in retreat. That's when one of them, Dan McWilliams, saw the flag. An American flag, attached to a broken pole, lying among the debris in the nearby marina. He picked it up and started back toward Ground Zero.

• January 17, 2002: Sept. 11 will be with us, but its grasp has eased

  Four months later, this is what normal looks like. People queuing up for tickets to a tragedy.

• November 17, 2001: When hate's truly deep, talk's cheap

  Laura Beth Kulbacki knows how to end the threat of terrorism.

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