Cynthia Tucker

In 2020, vying for Georgia's two Senate seats, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock sometimes campaigned together, more frequently as the election grew closer. Because Ossoff is Jewish and...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Here on the Gulf Coast, motorists can spot billboards emblazoned with "Merry CHRISTmas," with "Christ" in capital letters. In this part of the world, reactionary Christian piety...

After a court order allowed the late Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to register for classes at the University of Georgia in January 1961, a mob of white students and...

The United States wasn't really a democracy until 1965, when Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. It gave Black Americans the unfettered right to vote, and it inspired other marginalized...

If I am fortunate enough to live as long as President Joe Biden has lived, with as much mental and physical vigor as he apparently enjoys, I'll shout my birthday...

Just when I thought that debate on the Israel-Gaza war could not sink more deeply into inhumanity, a member of Congress lowered the bar. Earlier this week, Rep. Brian Mast,...

Authors, librarians and parents have appropriately scolded Scholastic, the leading publisher and distributor of children's books, for its craven response to the culture wars. As its books travel to schools...

When friends my age were sending their children off to college, I decided to adopt a newborn. My journey into single parenthood started after many, many years in which I...