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Leonard Pitts, Jr.

@leonardpittsjr1

Recovering columnist and author of the novels The Last Thing You Surrender, Grant Park, Freeman, Before I Forget, and 54 Miles

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Amen, LeBron James. At its core, Trumpism is, and has always been, little more than a temper tantrum on the part of those white people terrified by social change. If they can’t run the country, they’ll destroy it. Tuesday may well be our last, best, chance to stop them.

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Can you stand one more election postmortem? I scribbled a few thoughts on Substack because most of what I was reading and/or hearing was driving me crazy. Take a look (it’s free, no subscription required): leonardpitts.substack.com/p/6cea6eb6-325…

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Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday confrontation on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, an event re-created in my novel, ā€œ54 Miles.ā€ Join me all week for readings from the book In this one, Adam, my main character, sets out with other marchers toward the showdown.

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Friday marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday confrontation on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, an event re-created in my novel, ā€œ54 Miles.ā€ Join me all week for readings from the book. Today, the marchers come face to face with Alabama state troopers - Jim Crow’s army.

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Friday marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday confrontation on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, an event re-created in my novel, ā€œ54 Miles.ā€ Join me all week for readings from the book. Today, state troopers charge into the crowd of unarmed protesters.

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Tomorrow marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday confrontation on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, which is revisited in my novel, ā€œ54 Miles.ā€ I’ve been commemorating the event all week with readings from the book. Today, our main character is trapped in the carnage.

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Yes, sixty year ago the Democrats were what the Republicans are now: the party of choice for rracist asswipes. What’s your point?

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Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday confrontation on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, an event re-created in my novel, ā€œ54 Miles.ā€ I’ve been reading from the book all week. Today, we find our protagonist trapped on the bridge as chaos explodes around him.

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ā€œCan’t forget the Motor Cityā€¦ā€ Hey Detroit, I’ll be in town this weekend, signing copies of my novel, ā€œ54 Miles.ā€ Hope to see you there. detroitpubliclibrary.org/news/author-se…

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In a very real sense, we are living now in a world without America. The prospects are not promising. (But hey, at least we avoided having the black Asian lady as president!)

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loom.ly/KZgcmmg Every American needs to watch this. Every journalist needs to watch it twice. Every owner of a news organization needs to watch it on a repeating loop. It turns out democracy does not ā€œdie in darkness.ā€ It dies in broad daylight with everybody watching.