“To put it crudely, America would not exist without 244 years of black slavery, 85 years of Jim and Jane Crow, and now, one of two black kids caught in a violence-infested life of poverty.”
June 19, 2020
“Only by creating loyalties to something more universal than our immediate tribe — to ideas and values like community, tolerance, pluralism, and equality — can we begin the process of reciprocity and reconciliation between blacks and Jews.”
January 19, 2020
Speaking truth to power: ‘No lie can live forever’
January 18, 2019
‘I celebrate having been a witness to her life, and mourn her passing because she was special, and we may not see her equal again’
August 17, 2018
Fifty-one years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. visited New York to declare that the Vietnam War was poisoning America’s soul
April 4, 2018
If Dr. King were alive today, he’d be…fighting against identity politics? Wha?
January 16, 2018