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Rep. Giffords’ departure a blow to democracy
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.
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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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Looking for morning in America
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
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.
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Practicing the politics of racial resentment
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
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.
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Strip club’s ‘I Have a dream bash’ hardens the heart
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
You might call this a requiem for reverence.
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On video of Taliban corpses, let’s not be so quick to pass judgment
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Nearly 30 years ago Greg told me how it was, cutting the ears off dead men.
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Boo! A scary word for bigots
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
We gather here today to parse the meaning of “boo.”
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Ron Paul’s consistency doesn’t make him right
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Lessons in leadership: 70 years after Pearl Harbor
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
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.
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America's obsession with missing white women
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Let the first word be one of compassion..
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Brownback’s staff overreacted to teen’s tweet
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Let’s talk about the smallness first.
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UC Davis police went too far
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
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.
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If they only had a brain
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
You likely remember the 3 a.m. phone call.
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Trying to survive in Miami’s free-fire zone
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
This is not about your neighborhood.
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Why did it take Penn State so long?
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
So they did the right thing. Belatedly.
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On Mississippi and abortion: not always black and white
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Moral clarity is one of the most seductive traits of social conservatism.
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Fair to blame the pusher in Michael Jackson’s death
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who channeled the gods.
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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.
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