For the first time since the U.S. government began collecting the data, young Black men are dying by suicide at a higher rate than young white men. capitalbnews.org/young-black…

I'm all for revisiting the excesses of peak cultural wokeness. But we should do so accurately. Here is an essay about the journalistic "objectivity" wars of 2020-2022, and my ongoing annoyance at having written that NYT op-ed no one read or comprehended mosaictheory.substack.com/p/…

"Johnson, who was Black, sued the global news organization for race and gender discrimination the year after she joined. “What the suit was about originally was racism,” Johnson said in a 2013 interview... The Newspaper Guild’s sex and race discrimination class-action lawsuit against the AP was settled about decade later in 1983 for more than $1 million. Johnson was not listed as one of the plaintiffs. “The suit turned from all Black and one white (plaintiff), to all white and one Black (plaintiff),” Johnson recalled “And the one Black — the one that went to the civil suit — they took my name off and put another woman’s name on it. A Black woman who I had never heard of before.” apnews.com/article/marlene-j…

A Softer World: Forgotten but not gone.

Sonny Rollins's father was arrested 80 years ago this past February on charges of committing adultery, violating a taboo of interracial romance with a white woman. He was posthumously exonerated before his son passed. bit.ly/4xjVsZc

I feel pretty comfortable asserting that if you want to identify evil, ask how someone feels about Mr Rogers and Ms Rachel.

"Akash had been ensnared by a business venture that traffics in public humiliation as entertainment. That he was innocent of what he was accused of only served to draw a bigger crowd." nytimes.com/2026/06/10/techn…

A white supremacist gang is trending for predictable reasons, if you needed any more proof that we should have let Sherman finish the job.

Is Bari Weiss experienced at leading independently successful news outlets? No. But is she intelligent and shrewd with a sharp eye for news coverage? Also no.

As many are noting, Gordon Wood (RIP) was one of the historians who criticized the 1619 Project. Worth noting that, a few years later in 2023 he told me that while he still had quibbles, he believed the project had been an important one washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids. Richardson lives in N.C. He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/a…

New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive. w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch washingtonpost.com/business/…

Since a pandemic spike, homicides of all kinds have plummeted — except for domestic violence deaths. Family and intimate-partner killings are now 1 in 5 of all homicides, a @washingtonpost investigation found washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

We went to #Tyre in south #Lebanon to see the destruction wrought by Israel in its war with Hezbollah. @POTUS is finding harder to stop than he imagined. @Channel4News channel4.com/news/inside-leb…

Daniel Smith, Believed to Be the Last Child of Enslaved People, Dies at 90 eji.org/news/daniel-smith-be…

actually the worst band name ever is the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and it's not even close

"The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans....It will have far-reaching consequences for all Americans, and for our democracy." @MaraGay on the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opini…