Category: Columns
Best of Enemies: How the power of friendship can make peace between rivals
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln In 1971 I was a...
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Reggie Jackson: Juneteenth, Consent of the Governed, and the Constant Struggle for Equality
Black Americans did not abandon liberal democracy because of slavery, Jim Crow, and the systematic...
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Kids and Guns: When tragedy strikes next door and Milwaukee neighbors join in support
Yesterday, on Tuesday, June 18, a tragedy struck at the home of one of my neighbors. A precious 5...
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44 years after the Fall of Saigon: Fathers, Footsteps, and Photos from Vietnam 22 years ago
American history records the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 as the end of the Vietnam War. It...
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Reggie Jackson: CNN Highlights Living While Black in Milwaukee on “United Shades of America”
CNN broadcast its highly anticipated Milwaukee-based episode of United Shades of America on June...
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Walking the Talk: Jane’s Walk MKE Gets Political
This past April I saw three children huddled at the street corner in front of Camp Bar Tosa,...
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