| May 3, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyI hate weaponsIn my guts, Now I need one For those nuts. Everybody’s doing it. Buying a gun. Ever since the Supreme Court said anyone can own one, nervous citizens have been gobbling them up. Unconcealed weapons are even showing up in bars and supermarkets. It...
| Apr 28, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyDr. Rand Paul, son of Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, is a leading candidate to replace Kentucky’s outgoing Republican Senator, Jim Bunning. He’s seizing on the same citizen anger that fuels the tea partiers (Sarah Palin has endorsed him), but as...
| Apr 27, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyPeeved by an April 9 letter to the editor that attacked OtherWords columnist Donald Kaul, The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, The New York Times’ Paul Krugman, and other liberal voices, Winston-Salem Journal reader Cyclone Covey weighed in on April 19...
| Apr 26, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyDr. Dorothy Height was a lantern and role model for millions of women and a long-haul social change agent, blessed with uncommon commitment and talent. Her fingerprints are quietly embedded in many of the transforming events of the last seven decades as African...
| Apr 23, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyFormer NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks opened doors. “Many of the rights we take for granted today were made possible by the courage and tenacity of Ben Hooks and others of his generation who devoted their lives to the relentless pursuit of equality and...
| Apr 20, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe NCAA is mulling the expansion of the men’s college basketball tournament, an inevitability that will mean young athletes will rake in millions more dollars for their schools. Marc Morial’s recent OtherWords op-ed, College Basketball Graduation Rate...
