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A late night walk through a beautiful and terrible garden

Many of my childhood days were spent on my grandfather’s farm and, for better or worse, I became ...

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Playing press and paying respect

There are moments in a person’s life which stand out, in radiant technicolor, against the gray and drab ...

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The sounds of silence

Generally, I begin my columns with some snarky or cynical bit of humor, or perhaps a quote from ...

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The paradox of peaceful protest

White America loves a peaceful protest – it conjures up images of stone-faced civil rights protesters peaceably and ...

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Oppression at the concession stand

“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people ...

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A strange case of budget illness

One flips the pages on the calendar always thinking that Christmas is ages away, only to turn the ...

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Breaking: Newspaper becomes tabloid with mayor’s words

It may be a violation of my journalistic obligations, but I try hard to stay away from the ...

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A little boy walked into the newsroom…

A little boy walked into the newsroom Monday, his father being dragged behind him by the boy’s tiny-yet-mighty ...

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Kids at the ballot box

A light rain was falling Tuesday morning as the kids and I made our way to the nearby ...

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And still we wait for city vaults to open to the light

As I rose from the bed Tuesday morning, I knew I was going to have to have a ...

Opinion

The reporter, the columnist and the man

I pulled up to the radio station on Lauderdale, WHBB 1490 AM, around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning and ...

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To properly honor King, we must recall his radical views

In the decades following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, ...

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Dispatch from a ‘bum reporter’

During my time as a journalist, I’ve been called many things, most of which are unfit for publication, ...

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Ode to Rufus, the newsroom marmot

Since wandering into Selma more than a year ago, I’ve found a thousand different things to fall in ...

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Hark, the holidays have ended

The barrage of holiday festivities at the end of each year is generally a welcomed respite among the ...

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