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Jackson never lost hope on redemption — and neither should we

Having covered the late Rev. Jesse Jackson off and on since the 1960s, I am still amused to receive an email from one of my many critics who wants me to know that you don’t have to be white to find something to criticize about black people, as if I didn’t know. In fact, I’ve made an impressive collection of what I call “I’m not racist, but...” letters, postcards and emails from readers — many of them well-meaning, I should mention — informing me that I should appreciate white people like Jesse Jackson does. One quote I still receive occasionally is from Jackson ...

Ohio HB 326 could provide students with more options

Not every student has the same path to follow after high school graduation. They don’t have the same skill sets, interests or aspirations. So why would we limit the options they have for assessing their readiness to proceed on those paths? In Ohio, there may be other options available, if lawmakers give serious consideration to state House Bill 326, introduced by Reps. Kevin Ritter, R-Marietta, and Johnathan Newman, R-Troy. “Regarding the use of nationally standardized assessments in public and chartered nonpublic schools and state institutions of higher education,” it would ...

Equal, fair and a farce from Colbert

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie “Necessary Roughness” in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When Thompson ran for president in 2008, NBC stopped aired reruns of “Law & Order” that featured Thompson, who had been the district attorney on the show. The Equal Time Doctrine is not new. But the national press corps, always ready to pounce on President Donald Trump and Republicans, has suddenly ...

Black history is defended by those willing to preserve it

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. While we celebrate this milestone, we are also grappling with efforts to remove or revise black history in the classroom as well as the exhibits found at federal parks and museums. But black history cannot be erased; it is preserved because individuals and communities decide to step in. One example of this is found in Michigan, and it began with state legislation to support a celebration in 1915. The National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee ran from Aug. 22 to Sept. 16, 1915, in Chicago. The celebration marked ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Holly and Michael Guerrero for their 34th wedding anniversary this month and for their highly creative and definitively newsy methods of falling in love and furthering their romance. You see, Holly, ever so slyly, slipped her phone number into an edition of The Tribune Chronicle delivered to Michael’s family home in the mid-1980s. Michael took the bait, called her and romance blossomed, punctuated by his own newspaper-oriented proposal about eight years later. He took out a quarter-page ad in The Tribune, asking his beloved “Sport” for her hand in marriage and was on his ...

Challenges remain in fighting all types of heart disease

February has long gained fame as a month to celebrate the heart in two completely different spheres. Of course, there’s the metaphoric heart captured on Valentine’s cards designed to conjure up feelings of happiness, romance and love. Contrast that with the very serious — sometimes deadly serious — business of the American Heart Association in drawing much-needed awareness to the human heart and the diseases that so often attack that life-giving organ in our region, state, nation and world. Yes, cardiovascular disease rises as the most common and most destructive killer ...