Item number one: the play “Smokey Joe’s Café,” which was supposed to end its run at the Arena Playhouse on September 30, will run for two more shows: Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 at 8:00 p.m. Sorry, no matinee show on Sunday, October 7.

Remember the 1950s and 1960s? Perhaps that’s the wrong question. There is much to remember about both decades and if you are a black American,

To those who are attacking our embassies and are convinced they are committing an act of justice on behalf of the one true faith, I would say to you, that the one true God does not need mankind to seek justice on his behalf.

Surely members of The Baltimore Sun editorial board must be jesting. Recently, in one of their editorials— which seem to inch farther to the left with each edition of the paper— those editors took on the matter of the Emmitt Burns-Brendon Ayanbadejo-Chris Kluwe controversy.

In his “I Have a Dream Speech” delivered at the 1963 March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said he dreamed of the day his children would be judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character.

As I write this column, I’m suffering from a terrific headache. This is no sinus headache or migraine for a headache suffered from any known illness. This headache is courtesy of me pounding my head repeatedly on my desk.

Now that both national party conventions have ended, it’s time to reflect. Most of the analysis you have seen or heard has been pretty much what was expected. Most of the political pundits live in an echo chamber— they all talk with each other

On the fifth day of the 2012/2013 school year, 29,000 Chicago teachers did not report to their classrooms, abruptly halting the education of 350,000 mostly poor, black students. On the second day of the strike a group of Baltimore teachers gathered outside the