Preserving the natural environment in Bryan Park and developing a first-class Fall Line Trail within the park are not mutually exclusive.

President Biden has called for a sweeping overhaul of the Supreme Court and a constitutional amendment to limit presidential power, signaling his intent to tackle deep-seated issues within the American judiciary. In a compelling op-ed published this week, Biden underscored …

When word got around that the National Association of Black Journalists had invited the Republican Party’s presidential nominee to its annual convention, things got bad for the 48-year-old organization pretty fast. Some members refused to attend, others dropped out of …

Sometime last week, the chair was pulled out from beneath Confederate sympathizers. A bench that was placed, at taxpayers expense, in front of a stone marker in the 2400 block of Wise Street in South Side, is gone now. As …

In many ways our nation has changed, but it hasn’t changed.

“Russia remains the most active foreign threat to our elections. The Russian governments goals in such influence operations tend to include eroding trust in U.S. democratic institutions, exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the United States, and degrading Western support to Ukraine. …

A group of Texas cattle ranchers sued Oprah Winfrey for more than $12 million in 1996. They claimed that one of her shows, called “Dangerous Food,” that featured experts on mad cow disease and in which she said she would …

Last month, a black woman in Springfield, Ill., called the police to report an intruder in her home.

Fearmongering, when used as a political tool, has always been an effective means of swaying voters and winning elections.

When the stakes are high … when there is a real threat … should staying silent even be an option?

Summertime in Virginia: Temps are sweltering and show no sign of abating. Children are out of school and bored. Various fruits and vegetables are ripe for the picking, even in this hellish heat. And cases of COVID-19, the scourge of …

The bloodied head of our former president is an image that we won’t be able to shake for some time. (Thanks cable news.)

What if there was a blueprint for a future presidential administration to unilaterally lay waste to our constitutional order and turn America from a democracy into an autocracy in one fell swoop?

Can you imagine what would have happened to a Black man who showed up at a Donald Trump rally acting “suspiciously” around the metal detectors?

It’s become a recurring pattern and it can almost be numbing. When you open the newspaper or turn on the television, you see lives cut short due to gun violence – and tragically, so often, children’s lives. Nationally, guns now …