I sit in my car in a Starbucks parking lot. It’s a new Starbucks, a large lot, drive- thru. I wait while my daughter takes a music lesson down the road. The scene at the drive-thru strikes me. I’m ...

I recently accompanied an artist friend to an out-of-town festival where he was exhibiting. As a photographer, he’s generally in the minority at these events; as a black man whose passion is creating ...

Commentator Bill Harley says — it happens every spring. Only the day before, fifth graders meet him with openness, expressiveness, and humor. They laugh openly. They will even sing out loud. Then it ...

Stephen Quinn is the host of On the Coast on CBC Radio One, 690 AM and 88.1 FM in Vancouver. A small town in the Netherlands is trying to save oblivious pedestrians from themselves. The Dutch town of ...

The memory is a little hazy, but from what I recall it’s the mid-1970s in the cafeteria of Memorial High School on the West Side. The scene is raucous. Cheering students are egging on a crowd gathered ...

Amelia Robinson is the Dispatch's opinion editor. It is definitely louder when some chips fall than others. Did you hear the crash? First Roe and now falls more than 40 years of legal precedent that ...

Ketanji Brown Jackson called out "let-them-eat-cake" obliviousness to racism by her Supreme Court colleagues. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to end affirmative action, saying it was ...

"Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life," she wrote. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of a "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness" on the ...

There is no way around this: The Supreme Court’s split decision overturning affirmative action in college admissions is a perfect example of how racial diversity enriches us, and why it should be ...

If you're a white American, you're more likely than not to vote Republican, though it's a close call. If you're white and male, or white and religious, or white and from the South, or white and old ...