Holiday greetings
Holiday greetings
The case for a presidential pardon for Marilyn Mosby by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
The political weaponization of the justice system has become a dangerous norm.
Musk takes on Washington, but can he take over? by Clarence Page
Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back by Ana Lucia Araujo
During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays.
The Liberty in Laundry Act sounds like a joke – it’s not by Ben Jealous
The incoming Trump administration is supposedly interested in “efficiency.”
Passing opportunity
Second acts are hard to come by for African Americans. While it seems some white people are allowed to fail and fall repeatedly before securing a shot at redemption, it doesn’t work that way for everyone. Virginia native and former …
Finding common ground around the holiday dinner table, by Ben Jealous
The holidays are a time for coming together. We should not just be coming together physically to drive us further apart mentally, emotionally and spiritually by reinforcing our differences.
Kash Patel and his ‘bureau of intimidation’, by Clarence Page
When Merriam-Webster chose “polarization” as the word of the year for 2024, the timing was dramatic for many of us who make our living through words.
Vaccines protect your children and others, too, by Roger Chesley
Parents in Virginia who don’t vaccinate their young children, a percentage that’s grown over the past decade, are making a risky bet with their kids’ health – and maybe even their lives.
Insuring distrust
Once in a while, there comes a crisis or current event that lets us know how many Americans feel about a particular issue.
How faith calls us to tackle the climate crisis, by Ben Jealous
Reflections on God are common right now. We are about to enter a new year. Many of us are getting ready to celebrate Christmas or Hanukah. With 2024 “virtually certain” to be the hottest year on record, some may look …
Why didn’t Biden keep his promise?, by Clarence Page
Just once. Just once amid all the times that reporters asked President Biden whether he would give a pardon to his son, Hunter, who was facing a possible federal prison sentence, I wish I could have heard jolly Joe give …
W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope in national parks, by Thomas S. Bremer
In his collection of essays and poems published in 1920 titled “Darkwater,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about his poignant encounter with the beauty of the Grand Canyon, the stupendous chasm in Arizona.
Pardon the noise
When it was announced on Sunday that, despite his promises not to, Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, there was some outrage from the right.
Ranking progress
Recently, Chesterfield County officials witnessed the swearing in of the county’s first African American police chief, Lt. Colonel Frank Carpenter. For longtime observers of the county’s politics, this news would’ve seemed like science fiction a few decades ago. But here …
