We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.