On receiving the results of my DNA test through Ancestry.com, there was really only one major surprise – and it was a BIG one. I’ve always had a pretty good knowledge of my family’s history in America because my ancestors had been good in passing...
My friend and fellow fighter for justice, Cory Session, who works with the Innocence Project of Texas, has just informed me that another wrongfully convicted man will be exonerated in Dallas on Wednesday. By the way, Cory is the brother of Tim...
No amount of water or disinfectant can wipe the blood from Donald Trump’s hands after the wholesale massacre Monday of protesting Palestinians by Israeli soldiers along the Gaza/Israel border. The president’s unconscionable decision to relocate...
Several years ago, when these religious traditions and tragedies (Easter, Passover and Martin Luther King’s death) merged within the same week, I wrote a commentary for KERA-FM radio which National Public Radio aired on its acclaimed program “All...
Richard Nixon Is Better Than Donald Trump Make no mistake about it, I was not a fan of Richard Nixon. In fact, it would not be exaggerating to say that I despised him while he was in office (and I was in college) and for a longtime...
Another Innocent Man In The Texas Penitentiary? For decades I have championed the cause of individuals caught up in the criminal justice system, particularly in Texas. And, over the years, I and many others (especially the Innocence Project) have...
Photo: Longtime friend and driving force of the documentary, Thomas Muhammad (center), with acclaimed actors Danny Glover (left) and Glenn Turman (right). The new documentary, “Malcolm X: An Overwhelming Influence on the Black Power...
When the Youth of America Rise Up, Watch Out ‘Cause a Change Is Gonna Come After the latest deadly school shooting in Florida last week, with 17 dead and 14 wounded, something happened that the nation didn’t expect: our kids rose up, spoke up and...
DESPITE THE GROUNDHOG’S SHADOW, IT WILL ALWAYS BE “WINTER IN AMERICA” On Groundhog’s Day, as I usually do, I went outside to see if I could see my shadow. I did, as it was a bright, sunny day although a cool, brisk one...
HEADLINE: “HOUSTON . . . THE EAGLES HAVE LANDED.” When man landed on the moon in 1969, the first message from outer-space after landing on the lunar surface was: “Houston, Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed.”...
REMEMBERING THE NIGHT MY FAMILY SHARED WITH THE GREAT HUGH MASEKELA – A MEMORY THAT SHALL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN On hearing the news of his death, I immediately went to the framed mementos hanging on the wall of my home office. Inside the frame are...
A TIME WHEN I WAS THE MOST HATED PERSON IN NORTH TEXAS A Documentary from Those Days Proves Not Much Has Changed (I Dare You To Watch It and Tell Me Otherwise) The photograph accompanying this post was taken in 1992 during the days when I was...
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