'All-American Muslim': A Lost Opportunity

March 10, 2012

The cancellation of TLC network's All-American Muslim reality series shows that America still has a long way to go toward understanding the community post-Sept. 11, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes at the Sacramento Bee.

The New Jim Crow Is Alive and Thriving

The Miami Herald's Leonard Pitts Jr. promises to send 50 readers a free, autographed copy of the important book The New Jim Crow if they promise to read it.

Voter-ID Laws: Life in the Margins

Though GOP lawmakers swear their interest is in combating voting fraud with new identification laws, it's hard not to feel that their true intent is to suppress the black vote, writes Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.

Ron Paul's Consistency Doesn't Make Him Right

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. tackles Ron Paul's view that government equals tyranny. He concludes that the nation would be in trouble if his views prevailed.

America's Obsession With Missing White Women

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. writes that television news -- to the point of exasperation -- has gone into overdrive covering the case of another missing white woman.

UC Davis Police Went Too Far

If video had not captured an officer pepper-spraying Occupy Davis protesters, the crime would have gone unpunished, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes in his Miami Herald column.

If GOP Candidates Only Had Brains

According to Leonard Pitts Jr. at the Miami Herald, GOP presidential candidates have failed to show evidence of informed minds about the world and America's place in it.

Fair to Blame the Pusher in Jackson's Death

In allowing a drug-addicted patient to dictate the terms of his treatment, Dr. Conrad Murray transgressed medical ethics, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes in his Miami Herald column.

Pious Racial Indignation Over Cain's Offenses

In his Miami Herald column, Leonard Pitts Jr. wonders if it gives Clarence Thomas a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he is one of Ann Coulter's blacks.

The NYPD's 'Stop and Frisk': A Tactic for Abuse

Giving police the power to randomly stop and search pedestrians they find suspicious appears to violate the suspects' constitutional rights, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes in his Miami Herald column.