Keeping Up with the Jones
The only just and effective response to hazing
Hazing has been in the national spotlight again lately since Florida A&M University (FAMU) drum major Robert Champion was beaten to death on a band bus after a football game in late November.
Keeping Up with the Jones
The 2011 Jones Awards
I was going to call these the first annual “LEO Jones Awards,” but my editor would probably say, “Uh, we have NOTHING to do with this madness! The Jones is insane!
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Down Goes Frazier … and Paterno: A Tale of Two Joes
For years I have closed many columns with, “Have no fear, stay strong, stand on truth, and do justice.” Somewhere along the line, as I lost faith in leadership across the board, I added
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The sad legacy of 9/11
We recently observed the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. How time flies. It’s a good time to reflect. A decade later, can we really say we’ve “won” anything?
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Weiner’s wiener and other crazy, freaky tales
I don’t want anybody to get me wrong — I like (no, love) a little raciness. What red-blooded American boy doesn’t?
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Two centuries of black Louisville
A few weeks ago, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer did something strange. He hosted a book launch event at City Hall. I met Mayor Fischer for the first time last year during the primary season.
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Cornel West ‘worries about’ Al Sharpton. Should you?
As I prepare to leave the University of Louisville until 2012, I’m finishing up one of the most enjoyable instructional years I’ve had in recent memory.
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The Outlaw Phillip Bailey
I like outlaws. Not the commonly encountered criminals — drug dealers, thieves, murderers, most politicians and many preachers.
