“A country gets the leadership it deserves.” That was my sentiment back in 2016 when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the…
I had a palpable sense of nerves approaching the day I was to travel to Perugia for the International Journalism Festival. I was…
In Mid-December 2023, Charles Glass, the esteemed writer, journalist, broadcaster, and publisher visited with Julian Assange, an inmate at Belmarsh Prison in…
It doesn’t take much to shock me, but that Donald Trump has been charged with violating the Espionage Act has me unequivocally…
Such empathy from our justice system has never been the case for those of the wrong color, or right color to symbolize a threat to national security
I may be idealistic in what I feel needs to and can happen, but what other choice do I have? What other choice do we have? I want not only mine, but all the suffering I have witnessed to end
America, my country, deemed an African American fighting for his civil rights as a threat to national security
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