Leonard Pitts Jr.

Oct 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Leonard Pitts Jr.

In the aftermath of WWII in Mobile, Alabama, when a white man asks a Black woman to marry him, it fractures the two families. So when their Harlem-raised son Adam comes to Selma to register voters in 1965, it starts a journey that will impact every member of those families. Adam goes missing after the first attempted Selma march, and both his parents come south to search for him. His pastor father goes idealistically–and a bit naively–alongside other white pastors.

Sep 25, 2024 | aarp.org | Jesmyn Ward |Louis Bayard |Leonard Pitts Jr. |Chris Bohjalian

Photo Collage: AARP; (Source: Scribner (2); Agate Publishing; Little, Brown and Company; Random House Trade Paperbacks; Getty Images (2)) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The drama and conflict of the World War II era have inspired so many great novels — from Atonement and The English Patient to The Book Thief and All The Light We Cannot See.

Oct 3, 2023 | tribunecontentagency.com | Clarence Page |Leonard Pitts Jr. |Matt Maldre

Trump administration a danger to American democracyBy Leonard Pitts, Tribune Content AgencyWord Count: 562For Release 05/10/2017Republican Sen. James Lankford called for “clarity.”Republican Sen. John McCain pronounced himself “disappointed.”And Republican Sen. Marco Rubio essentially shqrugged. He said he was “surprised” by the sacking of FBI Director James Comey, but added that, “It’s a decision the president’s made, and we’ll go from here.”It is not exactly a portrait of righteous indignation.

Sep 3, 2023 | scribd.com | Leonard Pitts Jr.

At last week’s Republican presidential debate, the moderators asked whether Vice President Mike Pence did the right thing in refusing Donald Trump’s demands that he try to overturn Joe Biden’s victory when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6, 2021. Six of the eight candidates present said Pence did the right thing. A seventh candidate was Pence himself. Vivek Ramaswamy, the remaining candidate onstage, was not directly asked.

Aug 30, 2023 | scribd.com | Leonard Pitts Jr.

The anti-abortion movement is at a political crossroads. Last year, abortion rights won in all six states with abortion ballot measures, including in red states like Kentucky and Montana, activists suffered yet another defeat when Ohio voters cast ballots decisively against a that would have made it harder for constitutional amendments, including an upcoming vote this November on abortion rights, to pass in the future.