MiamiHerald.com: Leonard Pitts Jr.

The remote control that revolutionized our ‘fat assets’

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:00 EDT

We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives.

Goofy GOP plans against Obama’s re-election

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:40 EDT

I , too, sing America.

Some harsh sentences prove unjust

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00 EDT

So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation. And a wave swept this country in the Reagan years, a wave ridden by pundits and politicians seeking power, a wave that said, no mercy, no more.

Don’t blame the Dems for hyper-partisanship

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00 EDT

And another one bites the dust.

Serendipity in Obama’s timing on gay marriage

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00 EDT

So apparently, Barack Obama is finally done evolving.

A pertinent question amid U.S. justice system’s revolving door

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:41 EDT

I promised Russell I would ask you something.

Trayvon ‘killed by a stereotype’

Sat, 05 May 2012 21:41 EDT

I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.

Don’t blame the Bible

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:10 EDT

Sometimes, people hide inside the Bible.

Lessons from 20th anniversary of Los Angeles riots

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00 EDT

Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell you, something surreal about watching on television from a continent away as places you’ve been and streets you know are smashed and burned.

Hitler comparisons vandalize our national memory

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:35 EDT

John Raese is feeling persecuted.

‘Prince’ doesn’t guarantee happiness

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:24 EDT

Someday, my prince will come. — Snow White, 1937

If not drug legalization, what, Mr. President?

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:42 EDT

If President Obama had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. So the president famously said.

Titanic: the moral of a 100-year-old story

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:57 EDT

There is a single shot, just seconds long, in James Cameron’s newly re-released movie, Titanic, that says it all with poignant eloquence.

About time a GOP politician defended Muslim faith

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:38 EDT

Barack Obama himself has never had the guts to say it.

GOP has embraced extremism as a virtue

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:29 EDT

Meet Nathan Fletcher, candidate for mayor of San Diego.

Don’t rush to judgment in Trayvon case? That’s moral cowardice

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:36 EDT

Once upon a time in the late ’90s, a certain black newswoman was awarded her own column. She wrote 12 pieces, three of them about race. That was too many for her boss, who told her to tone it down. Confused, she went to a white colleague for advice. He explained that, being black, she lacked the judgment to decide if a given racial matter merited a column. In the future, he suggested, if she saw some racial issue she thought worth writing about, she should bring it to him and let him decide.

R-rated column, not suitable for New York’s kids

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00 EDT

Warning: This column contains language some readers may find unsuitable for children. Parental guidance is suggested.

In Trayvon Martin case, it’s not about the hoodie

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:00 EDT

One month later, some of us fail to understand what this is about. One month later, some of us are using the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to advance their own selfish aims or are throwing up smoke to divert our attention from what matters. One month later, a reminder seems sadly necessary.

In Trayvon Martin’s death, consider race and privilege

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00 EDT

I’m here to explain why George Zimmerman is white.

Bruce Springsteen and the state of our union

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:12 EDT

It begins with big drums, a guitar seesawing beneath like a deck rolling in high seas. It ends with a fuzz of static and feedback, a hiss of promises broken and a mortgage on the future.