Leonard Pitts

Published
December 8, 2021

Leonard Pitts: What’s another school shooting when the real threat to kids is a book?

To protect our children, conservatives are devoting an ‘unprecedented’ amount of time to pulling books off library shelves.
Published
December 1, 2021

Leonard Pitts: Today’s America has given flash mobs go-ahead to loot stores

Everywhere you look, someone else is seceding from the covenants that make it possible for civil society to function.
Published
November 24, 2021

Leonard Pitts: His selfless act raises larger issues – why do we let people go hungry in this country?

How can we ensure that someone who needs food is fed not just today but also every day?
Published
November 17, 2021

Leonard Pitts: Anti-vaxxers use deeply offensive symbol to play-act at victimhood

By wearing yellow Stars of David, these self-obsessed whiners are co-opting pain that doesn’t belong to them.
Published
November 10, 2021

Leonard Pitts: ‘Blonde hair white skin’ did work in Jan. 6 rioter’s favor

Jenna Ryan predicted she wouldn’t be jailed. She was wrong – but that doesn't undercut her point about color-coded justice.
Published
November 3, 2021

Leonard Pitts: White students may not be as fragile as some parents seem to think

At least one teacher has found that students are not traumatized when they hear the truth, but they are angry that they hadn't heard it before.
Published
October 27, 2021

Leonard Pitts: Unchecked power is accountable only to itself

Many police officers act as if they know that they will never be held accountable for mistreating the public they are supposed to serve.
Published
October 20, 2021

Leonard Pitts: There’s ‘you people’ and ‘my people.’ Where did ‘we, the people’ go?

I venerate the ideals on which this country was founded. Sadly, many others no longer do.
Published
October 6, 2021

Leonard Pitts: Not even Zuckerberg can fix Facebook

The expectation that the power to communicate broadly will unite us is not realistic – and never has been.
Published
September 29, 2021

Leonard Pitts: The stories of civil rights heroes should be told in schools

A movement to ban history books because they contain 'anti-American, anti-white' bias is contrary to our nation's ideals.