Falcon Heavy, Dad, and the Kid
It was 3 AM on a clear, crisp October morning in 1957 when Dad gently shook me awake and said simply, “It’s time.”
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Roger Witherspoon
- Apr 7, 2017
- 4 min
Morality, Race, and Chemical Assaults in Syria
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article Tomahawk Launch from USS Ross In 2013, President Assad launched a massive gas attack...
Roger Witherspoon
- Feb 4, 2016
- 4 min
Black History Lost and Found
On Feb. 1, the New York Times started a Black History Month series of photographs of black life in America, “Unpublished Black History."
Roger Witherspoon
- Jan 10, 2014
- 5 min
Chris Christie’s Pity Party
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...
Roger Witherspoon
- Jul 17, 2013
- 6 min
Daddy, Me, Trayvon and “The Talk”
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...
Roger Witherspoon
- Nov 18, 2012
- 9 min
The Dust Bowl: America’s Greatest Ecological Disaster
By Roger Witherspoon “A decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions ensued, with swarms of grasshoppers and hordes of rabbits...
Roger Witherspoon
- Jun 9, 2011
- 4 min
Good Night, Kids: Good Night, Gill
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...
Roger Witherspoon
- Apr 16, 2010
- 5 min
Hooks, Baker, the GOP And the Road Not Taken
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...
Roger Witherspoon
- Feb 5, 2010
- 6 min
Bread, Roses, Racism and Song
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...
Roger Witherspoon
- Jan 2, 2010
- 5 min
Power, Energy, and Black America
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...
Roger Witherspoon
- Oct 21, 2009
- 4 min
Dead Blacks, White Cops, and Political Cover
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article They buried Vionique Valnord last week. She was 33, had a five year old daughter, and...
Roger Witherspoon
- Oct 20, 2009
- 6 min
Breaking With a Dirty Past
By Roger Witherspoon Download and/or Print Article The Obama Administration is struggling to decide whether to keep or scrap the key Bush...
Roger Witherspoon
- Apr 5, 2003
- 7 min
Why Michigan Needed Affirmative Action
April 4, 2003 Section: Opinion Page: 7B Roger Witherspoon Staff The Journal News In one of its most significant decisions affecting race...
Roger Witherspoon
- Jul 18, 1987
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Roger Witherspoon
- Jul 18, 1987
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Roger Witherspoon
- Jul 5, 1987
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Roger Witherspoon
- Apr 11, 1983
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Roger Witherspoon
- Feb 11, 1982
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Roger Witherspoon
- May 12, 1981
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Roger Witherspoon
- May 7, 1981
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