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Leonard Pitts

Published
March 9, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Ukrainians’ resistance makes U.S. protest convoy look pathetic

American protesters wail about the 'tyranny' of vaccination while brave Ukrainians stand as one to fight for their freedom.
Published
March 2, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Does Ukraine have courage to be a country worth fighting for?

Even when people are at their most noble, dark-skinned refugees from the country are being singled out for mistreatment.
Published
February 23, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Canada, you were supposed to be better than this – or at least better than us

But the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ tells us that one of the last sane places on earth is not immune to the lunacy of the age.
Published
February 16, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Is America a racist country? If you have to ask, you’re part of the problem

If federal jurors conclude that Ahmaud Arbery was shot because he was Black, they’ll go a long way toward helping us see ourselves as we are.
Published
February 9, 2022

Leonard Pitts: The Jan. 6 rioters are no ‘ordinary citizens’

The resolution adopted last week marks the first time in print that the Republican Party’s governing body has normalized political violence.

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Published
February 2, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Get real – white guys have benefited from affirmative action for 230 years

Complaints that President Biden wants to name a Black woman to the Supreme Court are emblematic of a lifetime of unearned advantage.
Published
January 26, 2022

Leonard Pitts: For some, ‘white’ is still the default category on race

Sen. Mitch McConnell is not the only one to forget that African Americans are also Americans.
Published
January 19, 2022

Leonard Pitts: It’s obvious that Black Americans’ battle for voting rights will never, ever be over

Tempted to accept defeat? Remember this: Bigots will always cast ballots, so the rest of us must vote, and fight.
Published
January 12, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Black Americans shared Sidney Poitier with the world, but he was all ours

The groundbreaking actor, who died last week, embodied Blackness with an unyielding insistence upon his own – and therefore, upon our – dignity and worth.
Published
January 5, 2022

Leonard Pitts: Jan. 6 insurrection a dress rehearsal for something far worse

The refusal to hold rioters accountable, the passage of new voter suppression laws and the installation of Trump loyalists in state electoral posts don’t bode well.