Many years ago, Roland Martin and I were young reporters at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Roland quickly went on to become, well, Roland Martin, the ubiquitous personality on national television and radio, a longtime fixture of Sunday morning network talk shows. But Roland clearly remembers one part of our brief acquaintance. He and I had several important discussions about race …
I got out of bed Sunday morning and absolutely knew what I was going to write this week. Then I picked up The Forum (that’s Fargo’s paper, in case you didn’t know) and saw an article by Robin Huebner that sent me off focus. The article was on Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota and refugee settlement. It also focused …
“Keep it simple, Stupid.” We’ve all heard those words. They seem to be the universal model for everything: — Don’t clutter a PowerPoint presentation with too many slides. — Don’t ruin a perfectly good song with overly complicated riffs and vocal pyrotechnics. — Overdone special effects in a movie look ridiculous. You get where I’m going with this. Unfortunately, sexism, racism, any …