The Language Lane

While addressing the crowd outside the federal courthouse in Norfolk, Virginia, after entering a not-guilty plea in the mortgage fraud case against her being pushed by Donald Trump, New York Attorney General Letitia James channeled some of the best of Martin Luther King Jr. James, addressing a crowd of enthusiastic supporters, some exclaiming “Freedom” and “Democracy,” explained once again in so many words that the justice system is being weaponized by Trump to target his pol

I made two mistakes regarding the great Jimmy Heath. One occurred at LaGuardia Airport when we boarded a flight to Atlanta and I failed...

The inclusion of Black literary references in my guilty-pleasure crime shows continues. An old alto saxophonist, Marshall Grant (Willie...