Leonard Pitts

This week is the 40th annual observation of Banned Books Week. It comes at what Publishers Weekly has dubbed a time of "new urgency" in the struggle over intellectual freedom....

All you folks who, 30 years ago, give or take, thought rap music was the end of the world — don't you feel kind of silly now?

Despite knowing for years that the state's water infrastructure was failing, Mississippi officials failed to act. However, in that time, they did manage to pass plenty of other bills involving...

Voting rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, even contraceptive rights . . . somehow, it's all once again up for grabs. And people who fought and won those fights are understandably...

This is the most important story in the world because it is the world. None of the other things that gobble our attention — Donald Trump, abortion rights, gun violence...

The stories that have come out since the Supreme Court overruled Roe will be fuel for structures of defiance and civil disobedience that even now are taking shape all over...

Trump was caught trying to overthrow the U.S. government. Yet here come his allies trotting out this lame excuse in order to deflect from Trump the blame he obviously and...

She was just trying to defend herself. It seems a Republican "colleague" had slimed Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in one of those ad hominem, free-of-facts, detached-from-reality, what-the-heck-are-you-even-talking-about attacks that...

As you've likely heard, Texas' new anti-abortion law, which the Supreme Court refused to block on Wednesday night, bars termination of pregnancy after six weeks — long before a woman...

Until maybe six months ago, I had never heard of "critical race theory." It has since become inescapable, of course.