I have a friend who’s been posting pictures of Maya Angelou’s stoop-turned-memorial, just up the street from her own home in Harlem. A wreath of white peonies. Stacks of single roses wrapped in cellophane, all snug in baby’s breath. On the day Angelou died, Facebook and Twitter blew up with RIPs and reflections about the […]
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Leonard Pitts Jr. before his Inkwood pit stop
The novelist, Pulitzer winner and Miami Herald columnist talks about his inspirations and being a “white supremacist chew toy.”