A lump rose to my throat last week when newscats ran the historic 715th home run by Hank Aaron, breaking Babe Ruth’s vaulted record which held for nearly 40 years. […]

Omar was my big brother – tall, smart, and athletic, who always had a quick joke or intriguing story to share. He was also black. Mom introduced us when I […]

What’s a black person to do? In 2016, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the National Anthem, protesting police brutality against African-Americans, and he was booed and reviled. […]

John Earnest was an earnest anti-Semite. Before opening fire in the Chabad Synagogue near San Diego during a Passover service on April 28, he published a rambling online manifesto that […]

  In my day, heroes like JFK, Mickey Mantle and George Reeves did not have feet of clay. They were photogenic, stainless-steel men who stared down commies, smacked grand-slams and soared through the […]