Stones from the Creek

Charles Blow published an excellent essay in today's New York Times titled "'Lynch Mob': Misuse of Language."   In it ...

The biggest challenge for me in walking Prophet through the park every morning is negotiating the parade of personalities -- canine and huma...

This morning’s New York Times included an Op-Ed piece titled “When Americans Lynched Mexicans.”   The authors refer the reader immediately ...

Yesterday masked gunmen entered the editorial offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo  and assassinated 12 people, including ...

I cannot say that I was initially suspicious of the story that accompanied this picture.  I was more interested.  I first saw a Facebook lin...

I have been reading a book called Grassroots Garveyism  about the Black nationalist movement in the American South in the second and third d...

About twenty years ago I heard Rigoberta Mench ú  Tum speak in person for the second time.  We had used a Scholastic Update magazine excer...