Corey Brooks

The best players in the NBA didn't get there because of their race. They got there because they outworked everybody else Sometimes I like what television personality, podcast host and sports analyst Stephen A. Smith has to say. Other times, I just shake my head and ask, "What?" This is one of those times. The man recently looked at the Los Angeles Lakers' roster in the post-LeBron James era and saw that its top three players are White. He decided that their skin color was newsworthy.

Rooftop Revelations: Democrat and community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier's past remarks reveal how anti-American sentiment has taken root on the left I was scrolling on X the other day when I came across a post from Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democrat and community organizer running for Congress in New York's 13th District. If she wins in November, she plans to abolish ICE , and she has been endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Project H.O.O.D. and faith replaced gangs and violence on the south side of Chicago For years, I have watched so-called experts look at the 6400 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive — O Block, Chicago's most dangerous block — and write it off. They prescribed programs, funding and initiatives. The funerals kept coming. Not much changed. They were wrong not about the problem but about the solution. What was dying on that block wasn't something a program could cure. It was hope.