As we salute Dr. Martin Luther King’s 93rd birthday today and commemorate the MLK National Holiday on Monday, we ruefully reflect on a year of protests outside the murder trials of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and anti-Asian violence in Atlanta. Coupled with critical race theory classroom conflict and Voting Rights legislation politics, race relations are precariously positioned, it appears.

It was halftime at Lucas Oil Stadium when David Lacy, 36, found his spot on the field. At the time, the Colts were beating the New England Patriots 17-0. Lacy was about to win big.

Happy New Year!

It started as an auction to benefit koalas in Australia. Then, a tornado outbreak hit western Kentucky.

You can tell a lot about a person just by observing the way they decorate their Christmas tree.

Today is Christmas!

Much like my contemporaries as a student at Hampton and Columbia universities in the 1970s, my hairstyle was an afro, as the lengthy locks were called and popularized by Black Power activists such as Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, to symbolize the “Black is Beautiful Movement” of that era.

Kokomo has become a highly sought-after international destination. No, not for a resort vacation, but to listen and learn valuable lessons.