As we prepare for the long holiday weekend, I am eager to erase from memory the pictures of violence from this week’s local, national and international news. Yet I can’t stop thinking about the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old African American Bowie State University student by a 22-year-old white University of Maryland student in what
As I poured through a series of editors’ questions on a 12,000-word article recently, methodically answering each one in order, I stopped suddenly at one question: “Just checking, but Wikipedia says $56 million???” Really? I’m actually getting a reference to Wikipedia from an editor? I skipped on to the next question, hoping to calm my
News outlets this time of year round up inspiring profiles of high school and college graduates or snippets from commencement speeches at leading institutions. Even though I left college nearly three decades ago, I can’t help but think that I had just recently worn a cap and gown. I look in the mirror and see
