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For African Americans, faith is not confined to hope of heaven

George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin on a Saturday night in 2013. The next morning, I went to church wearing a hoodie. This was mid-July, hardly hoodie weather. But other brothers showed up similarly attired, including our pastor. This gesture — an expression of solidarity and raw pain — was no surprise. Indeed, I’d wager it was repeated in many Black churches — and almost no white ones. And that, I think, speaks to a central thesis of “The Black Church,” a documentary that premiered Tuesday on PBS. Namely, that when Black people and white ...

On immigration, go slow and steady

by Karthick Ramakrishnan and Allan Colbern On Feb. 4, Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., introduced the Dream Act, co-sponsored by Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., which would grant legalization and eventual citizenship to an estimated 2 million immigrants without papers, who were brought to the United States as children. Even though such has remained highly popular among voters since former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced it in 2001, critics have often dismissed it as a piecemeal effort that is inferior to comprehensive immigration reform. Critics from the right have often ...

Cuomo’s deadly lie: NY nursing home deaths underreported

The people who hand out Emmy Awards should ask New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the one they gave him. Cuomo received an Emmy for what they called his “masterful” COVID-19 press briefings. The media lauded those performances, extolling his honesty and transparency. It now turns out he was as honest as many other politicians and as transparent as a brick. The New York Post, which increasingly practices journalism that should shame the major media, reported last week that a Cuomo aide, Melissa DeRosa, privately apologized to Democratic legislators (but not Republicans) for ...