| Sep 23, 2013 | Peace / SecurityThe flag positioned at half-mast was the only indication that anything had happened at all. American University was lush with early-autumn excitement and the quad was full of beginning-of-the-semester, carefree energy. There were no panicked email alerts, no worried...
| Sep 10, 2013 | Peace / SecurityI haven’t heard such enthusiastic, downright raucous applause since Texas Gov. “Oops” Perry suggested in 2009 that his state just might withdraw from the union. Unfortunately for him, the applauders weren’t Texans. They were the people of the...
| Jul 17, 2013 | Peace / SecurityAre you familiar with “Black Man 101”? Black men never get to graduate from this constantly changing and mandatory course in survival and behavior modification. With the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, the Black Man 101 curriculum has been...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe not-guilty verdict a jury of six women reached in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin was outrageous. Although I’d been following this case since February 26, 2012 — the day George Zimmerman, a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch captain, gunned down the...
| | Peace / SecurityI wasn’t too surprised when do-it-yourself vigilante George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin. The trial took place in Florida, after all. You have to be pretty stupid or reckless or both to be found guilty of murder in Florida. If you...
