COMMENTARY: Adding Fuel to the Fire of Our Pandemics Nero, the Roman Emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in crisis. The great Rome fire took place in the first century AD. The fiddle wasn’t invented until the eleventh...

Justice Ginsburg’s Death Could Prove Fatal to American Democracy Ruth Bader Ginsburg – affectionately known as The Notorious R.B.G. (after the famous moniker of the late hip-hop star, The Notorious B.I.G.) – held on as long as she could while fiercely battling metastatic pancreatic cancer. At 87, the popular Supreme Court Justice had battled cancer and...

COMMENTARY: One Huge Lie Crystallized You may have decided not to look at the recent Republican National Convention on television, and many Americans think President Trump broke the law by abusing the Hatch Act. But our president is smiling, because he got away with it. The president needed a convention...

What’s on Miles’ Mind?: “JEWISH” Is Donald Trump Jewish? Does his Trump genealogy include Jewish roots? Would it matter? To whom? Would it matter to his extreme right wing, nationalist, neo-Nazi, Confederate Flag waving, Swastika wearing, goose-stepping, pick-up truck driving base– Trump supporters who shouted “Jews will not replace us”...

Hardin: Black People Should Shut Up and Dribble Every Sunday afternoon as a child, after my weekly forced religious indoctrination, I couldn’t wait to rush home to start my TV watching routine. First, it was Fred Kirby and The Little rascals followed by Tarzan. I never noticed that initially, Buckwheat was the only...