Sometimes, I will find something of value in that deep dark hole of illusion called social media.
Ed Pratt
The senseless death this week of 3-year-old Devin Page Jr., killed by a stray bullet while sleeping in his bed in Baton Rouge, should be the f…
It’s mid-morning on Tuesday and I’m starting to feel a little off. Actually, I had felt a little different Monday night, but it could have bee…
As I was watching the highlights and the many lowlights of the confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court, I wa…
For days, I was buried emotionally in the sadness surrounding a crime wave in Baton Rouge and south Louisiana involving young people. The horr…
“Did you hear about it? You had to hear about it,” a friend texted me. “Yeah, I know what happened,” I responded.
It was a Sunday afternoon, about two weeks ago, when I saw a young man lying on the walkway entrance into my favorite gas station. He was abou…
Ed Pratt: If Ruby Bridges could survive one of our ugliest chapters, today's kids can learn about it
In a moment of reflection recently, I stared for the umpteenth time at an iconic photo from the civil rights movement. It’s the one of a beaut…
A couple weeks ago, I had to deal with a sad family event that occurred about a block from the first house I lived in with my grandmother. Whi…
