The Washington Post was sold this month for a pittance of what it was worth before the Internet drained the print industry's ad base that paid for the last great army of reporters in my lifetime. In what may be a gilded age of new-media billionaire barons, one of them, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, handed ...

We sometimes hate to look back in the past. Whatever our reasons are, no one wants to be made to feel bad, by what happened with their families 100 years ago. You hear people say that it’s better left alone a lot when you talk about African AMERICAN HISTORY. We have left so much alone that a l...