Bookmarks: Immigration issues • Ted Cruz, demagogue • What Happens When Mentally Ill People Have Children ———— ♦ ———— Governor Hogan...

Bookmarks: 1975 “cold” case solved • When addicts have babies • Black self-segregation ———— ♦ ———— The disappearance of the Lyon...

Bookmarks: The murder of Jack Garcia • The GOP circus • Jon Stewart’s racism ———— ♦ ———— The murder of Jack Garcia: Tuesday  2015-07-07...

Bookmarks: The murder of Terron Singleton • A greedy church. Really greedy. • “Looking while black” • The homeless get a bad rap •...

I don’t normally allow myself to imagine untoward events in the future.  However, I do anticipate more riots when the Baltimore police...

Bookmarks: This teen won’t go to prison • No one cares what black folk think. • A thumbs-up for Hilary • Maryland mom ditches baby —...

Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake fires Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts I don’t like this. But I am best to “accept the things I cannot...

Bookmarks: Wild West Baltimore • Burglars rape, murder, burn high school junior • Dylann Storm Roof • Jamarion Lawhorn update • Lacey...

Bookmarks: Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness • McDonald’s issues again • Carter Scott update ———— ♦ ————...

Saturday  2015-05-02 A third phase has begun, with yesterday’s filing of charges against the six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s...

As of Wednesday 04/29/15, I am beginning a new post (compare last Monday’s ), as events prior to Monday afternoon 04/27/15 could be...

As of Monday, 04/27/15, let me say this.  We had five days of completely orderly demonstrations.  Only after that did the interlopers...

Isaiah 25: 6On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food...

From my diary for Friday 2015-05-01: Ta-Nehisi Coates has had two “provocative” HuffPost columns in two days.  Wednesday she decried...

… if you’ve never lived here, if you’ve never worked here … Now that Baltimore is the center of national media attention, an endless...

… apparently went just as anticipated. City leaders call on black men to mentor youths and stop the violence “The usual suspects” — those...

In recent weeks it has been a matter of some chagrin to me that my Yahoo! News feed keeps bringing articles from major outlets that prove...

Report: Sandtown-Winchester leads state in number of people incarcerated This report provides real, hard numbers as to how much it...

Bookmarks: The wonder drug • Phylicia Barnes update • The heckler’s veto again ———— ♦ ———— 2015-03-04. I’ve wanted to pose that...

Bookmarks: Thugs, gangs and blackness • R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy • Tea Party same old same old • Poland’s “Barbie” candidate ———— ♦ ————...