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  • Sleepless in Obamaland

    The end of this presidential campaign is giving me fits. During the day, I believe Barack Obama might just win this thing. At night, I’m scared sleepless that he might not.

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  • North Carolina's New Blues

    The Queen City Motel sits barely noticed on this city’s West Side, just seven minutes from the wobbly banks and new construction projects commanding the downtown skyline. At the Queen City, you find people who are living by day and by week, watching economic calamity from the outer edge of misery. Some have no cars,…

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  • Barack Obama Can Do Three Whole Pull-Ups

    This picture of presidential hopeful Barack Obama doing pull-ups in Missoula, MT was taken by the photographer Callie Shell for Time magazine last April. I like it! Shell has snapped an entire collection of wistful shots of the great black/white Hope from Illinois, some grand and sweeping, others mundanely human. Just like those ones of…

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  • The New Old Dominion

    Since 1964, one thing that’s been as inevitable as death and taxes has been that Virginia would wind up in the red column in presidential elections. The Old Dominion’s loyalty to the Republican Party was so secure that GOP candidates made only token appearances in the state. This year things are different. If the polls…

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  • 'I'll Be Voting for Sen. Barack Obama.'

    “Because I do what the facts tell me, Captain…” – Capt. Richard Davenport from A Soldier’s Play (1981) The true importance of any political endorsement is debatable. But this one is big, since it involves America’s most recognizable military hero declaring a preference that could help undecided centrist Republicans and independents make up their minds.…

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  • An Obama-Palin Ticket

    Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate in August, I have been telling friends that my true “dream ticket” for the 2008 campaign would be Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin.Yes, I know this sounds odd. They are from different parties. They hold opposing views on foreign and domestic policy.…

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  • Eid al-Fitr — It's a Black Thang, Too

    Oct. 1, 2008—For the past month, I have been dragging myself out of bed at 4 a.m. for a pre-dawn meal, usually yogurt and granola, to prepare for an all-day fast. At each sunset, I have been breaking my fast in the lively, and lovely, company of my fellow Muslim sisters and brothers fasting for…

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  • If Obama Loses…

    Here is the nightmare scenario: Nov. 1, 2008, Barack Obama is leading in the national polls by a comfortable margin. Nov. 4, 2008, he loses the election, either by a whisker or by a margin large enough to suggest that it was never really close. All indications are that the loss will be blamed on…

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  • The Cost of Silence

    Tonight is Michelle Obama’s night at the Democratic Convention. She will reintroduce herself to America, try to convince us that she and her family, especially her husband, are just like us and worthy of our support. Expect her to be phenomenal. Expect her to be attacked, as well. Republicans and their surrogates have already tried…

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  • The Confessions of Lauryn Hill

    It’s funny how money change a situation Miscommunication leads to complication My emancipation don’t fit your equation… Some wan’ play young Lauryn like she dumb —Lauryn Hill, “Lost Ones” —Scroll back a decade, and there was Lauryn Hill—top of the world, Ma!—clutching five Grammys and sending shoutouts to her babies, thanking them for not spilling…

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