It was 3 AM on a clear, crisp October morning in 1957 when Dad gently shook me awake and said simply, “It’s time.”

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Tomahawk Launch from USS Ross In 2013, President Assad launched a massive gas attack...

On Feb. 1, the New York Times started a Black History Month series of photographs of black life in America, “Unpublished Black History."

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article “I’m Stunned.” “I’m Incredulous.” “I’m a sad guy.” “I’m humiliated.” “What did I do...

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Art I’d never seen Mom cry before. Daddy had said “go over to the chair. We have to talk.” And...

By Roger Witherspoon “A decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions ensued, with swarms of grasshoppers and hordes of rabbits...

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article “Was there a touch of spring in the air? And did she have a pink dress on? Wasn’t...

By Roger Witherspoon It’s hard to make pancakes with your right arm broken and useless in a sling. It was 90 degrees and humid in Miami...

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article In the nation’s coffee houses where live folk music reigns and homage is paid to old...

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Articlle In a sense, it could fairly be said to have begun with patent number 252,386, issued...

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article They buried Vionique Valnord last week. She was 33, had a five year old daughter, and...

By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The Obama Administration is struggling to decide whether to keep or scrap the key Bush...

April 4, 2003 Section: Opinion Page: 7B Roger Witherspoon Staff The Journal News In one of its most significant decisions affecting race...