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Today we are 66 years removed from the day in 1955 when 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Black boy from Chicago, was brutally murdered when visiting relatives in

Ron Lora: Ron Lora - Guest Columnist Word of the Arthur M. Schlesinger U.S. presidential poll of 1948 first came to me in a high school history class during the 1950s. My teacher, an avid Republican, was slightly perturbed that Franklin D. Roosevelt had fared so well with historians. However, she used the poll to stimulate our young minds about presidents. Looking back, it is revealing that the Schlesinger exercise should have won favor in a small class in a very small high school, and that it spawned so many successors. Both points serve to explain the proliferation of presidential polls sin...

So much to be grateful for as an American: The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the 14th and 19th amendments, the 1964 Civil Rights Right A

Ron Lora: Gun regulation in America Ron Lora - Guest Columnist The Supreme Court will hear a major gun-rights case, possibly in the fall. At issue is the scope of the Second Amendment, more precisely whether Americans have a right to carry a loaded handgun in public. I will not prejudge how the Court will rule, although at the moment there is a sense that the right to carry guns outside the home will be broadened. With only 4.3 percent of the world’s population, the United States has nearly 40 percent of the world’s non-military guns, well over one per person. According to the University ...

Ron Lora: Anti-Asian American bias is integral to American history Ron Lora - Guest Columnist The deadly shootings at Atlanta-area spas last month that killed eight persons, including six Asian American women, drew national attention to anti-Asian bias in the United States. Police department statistics reveal that anti-Asian hate crimes in major cities surged nearly 150 percent last year, while in New York City they jumped more than 800 percent over 2019. Meanwhile, what the U.S. Department of Justice defines as “hate incidents” targeting Asian Americans (non-criminal acts of prejudice) h...