
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
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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 canāt run the country, theyāll destroy it. Tuesday may well be our last, best, chance to stop them.






Friday marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday confrontation on the Pettus Bridge in Selma, an event re-created in my novel, ā54 Miles.ā Join me all week for readings from the book. Today, the marchers come face to face with Alabama state troopers - Jim Crowās army.










