About the Author
Gregory Clay
Gregory Clay is a Washington columnist and former assistant sports editor for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
- Black Ex-Slaves, Hispanic Migrants and the Positives of Martha’s Vineyard
- Many Black Children Need a New Environment
- Are Hobson and Rice Mere Pawns for the NFL?
- Supreme Court Makeup All About Luck and Timing
- Even Republicans Can Do the Right Thing
- Gun Game Out of Control
- Is Any Ruling Settled Law?
- Colleges Confronting Their Racial Pasts
- Shootings, Thefts Are a Lingering U.S. Plague
- Joe Biden Should Forget the Moonwalk
- KBJ Has IT Factor for Supreme Court
- NFL’s Messy Diversity Game
- U.S. Supreme Court and Precedents
- Poitier’s Career Measured in Milestones
- On Second Thought . . . How About Funding Police Again?
- College Students Not Immune to Big City Violence
- WTA Stands Up When the NBA Won’t
- Wokeness, CRT Costly to Democrats in Last Week’s Elections
- Unintended Consequences of the George Floyd Movement
- A Memorial Gone Away Too Soon
- The Scourge of Generational Gun Violence
- The Trump-RBG Effect on Texas
- Making Sense of 2020 U.S. Census Report
- U.S. Flag, Cuban Protests and Black Americans
- More Institutions Should Follow NFL’s Lead on COVID
- NIL Spells More Fairness for Women, Too
- Bullets and Ballots
- Visibility of Hate in Full Focus
- The High Stakes of ‘Wokeness’
- Fifty Years Later, What Do We See . . .
- A Mass Shooting? Depends on the Source
- This Personality Conflict Sells Royally
- Texas Travesty All About Value System
- Out of a Pandemic Grows Medical Applicants
- Hank Aaron: He Hit Everything Life Threw at Him
- Still Too Early to Count Out Donald Trump
- A New Year with Old Beefs
- Words Matter — For Some, Not Others
- Kaepernick, Celebrities Drop the Ball in Advocacy Game
- Media Could Be at a Loss Without Drama King Trump
- Biden Doesn’t Have a Real Mandate — Yet
- Conservative White Women Talk Trump, Election and Race
- Opposites Can Attract
- RBG Brought Rights to the Fights
- Kamala Harris Adds an Edgy Buzz to Fierce Election Season
- Biden’s Gaffes Speak Volumes
- It’s the Thought That Counts…
- Covering Shootings Depends on What’s Trendy
- Drew Brees Surrendered Too Quickly
- MLK Aide Assesses Today’s Confluence of Crises
- College Sports Face High Stakes in Coronavirus Environment
- When Should Sports Return? Athletes-Turned-Fans Talk The Season of Coronavirus
- For Surgeon General, It’s About Who’s the Boss
- Is Joe Biden the Next Hubert Humphrey?
- Is Joe Biden the Next Hubert Humphrey?
- Philadelphia’s Double Whammy: Murder and a Virus
- Trump, Sanders More Alike Than You Think
- Brother, Sister and Dementia
- Kobe and JFK Jr. — Common Bonds and Divergent Paths
- A Black Epidemic We Don’t Discuss
- Black Anti-Semitism Issue Escapes From the Shadows
- For Donald Trump, Here Comes the Judge
- Chaos in the College Cocoon
- Women in Economics Talk Struggles and Solution
- It’s Hard Outrunning the Thought Police
- The Next Big Media Pitch Should Be Science
- Black Student-Athletes Feel the Pressure of Their Legacies
- A Fine Line for RBG
- Black Victims Forgotten in the National Fog of Gun Violence
- The ‘Great Conservative Racism Dilution Plan’
- Space Diplomacy Put on the Front Burner
- Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Remembers Kennedy’s Quest
- Dionne Warwick, One of a Kind, From Another Time
- Zion Williamson in the Center of National Discourse
- Young Activists, Progressives Rally as Climate Change Debate Heats Up
- Hollywood’s Ava DuVernay Sounds Diversity Alarm
- Money Debate Complicates College Basketball
- DNC Should Keep Fox in the Hunt
- Unhappy Times for the NBA and GM
- Jussie Smollett, a Lesson in Duplicity
- Harris and Booker Need More Than Symbolism
- Playing the Assumption Game Has Consequences
- Despite Flaws, ’Rooney Rule’ More Than a Football Thing
- For George H.W. Bush, 73 Was an Amazing Number
- Lessons on Money Matters for the Black Community
- Gang Violence a Forgotten Horror of Mass Shootings
- These Celebrities Top the Political Polarization Charts
- An Educational Initiative Behind Bars
- A Different Kind of Justice
- Nike and Obama Playing the Same Game
- The Scourge of ‘Melanated Fratricide’
- Barack Obama — Should He or Shouldn’t He?
- Studying Police to Improve Policing
- Mad Max and Others Out of Control
- Kerry Kennedy Keeps RFK’s Memory Alive With ‘Ripples of Hope’
- Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain and Happiness
- When Rejection Can Be a Positive
- Double Standards in Interracial Love Matches
- Josh Rosen Too Rich, Too Smart for the NFL
- What Does ‘Well Regulated’ Really Mean?
- Michael Bennett Didn’t Get the Memo on the T-Word
- A Black Superhero in Tights Sees Green Lights
- Students Show Their Power in Parkland
- Some College Classes Need Warning Labels
- When Teens Elevate Smalltown USA
- Pete Souza an Eyewitness to History as Obama’s Photographer
- Athletes-Turned-Activists Should Study Charles Barkley’s Blueprint
- William Perry Plays Dr. Doom to Alert Us
- ‘Thursday Night Lights’ More Than Just a Sports Lesson
- Fractures Within the NFL Soap Opera
- From Fame to Shame to Blame in the Workplace
- Kaepernick’s Message Lost in Translation
- Deadly Nightmares in Small-City USA
- Mentors Don’t Have to Look Like You
- Secretary of State Tillerson Enters New Diversity Frontier
- Despite Uproar, Former Google Employee Raises Important Issues
- Waiting for the Wrath of O.J. — Again
- Not a Good Look in Hawaii
- Cultural Appropriation in the Theater of the Absurd
- This N-Word Debate About Bill Maher Is Simply Child’s Play
- When Option A Isn’t Available
- NFL Still Fumble-Prone on Domestic Violence Issues
- The Only Agreement Is to Disagree in Today’s Washington
- The Racial Wealth Gap — It’s Getting Worse
- Supreme Words from the Notorious RBG
- Georgetown President on Truth — and Its Consequences
- Sen. Tim Scott Knows the Name of the Hate Game
- Chicago Might Be a Hate-Crime Game-Changer
- Q&A: Donald Trump and Black Colleges, a Conversation
- Megyn’s Message — If You Settle, Then Settle for More
- John Lewis Charts New Ground in the Comic Book Genre
- Making Sense of Messy Times From the Presidential Election
- Charles Barkley Finds the Hot Spots for His Traveling Race Show
- The Donald Trumps the Process
- Versatile Abdul-Jabbar Talks Politics, Muslim Issues
- When Sex Talk Trumps a Deadly Hurricane
- Charlotte’s Disorderly Conduct Overrides a Key History Lesson
- Sitting Down Vaults NFL’s Colin Kaepernick Atop Polarization Charts
- Clinton and Trump Play Roosevelt and Caesar
- How the World Has Changed the Olympics
- O.J.: Tailor Made for America
- Whites and Blacks Revere Ali for Different Reasons
- Time to Set the Record Straight on That Competition Thing
- Rules of the Game Matter
- I, Robot, What’s Next
- Larry Wilmore’s Comfort Zone Creates Discomfort
- Erasing History Won’t Change Lives
- Call It Outrage Just for the Sake of Outrage
- The Dirty Side of March Madness
- The Lessons of Terrorism
- Top Military Officials Welcome New-Age Technology in War Zones
- Change Is a Crucial Part of the Supreme Court Landscape
- A Whole New Script for Peyton and the Manning Family
- For NFL Super Bowl Quarterback Cam Newton, When Too Much Is Simply Too Much
- Fighting Terrorism on the Digital Battlefield
- ‘In a Battle for the Soul of Islam’
- Republican Debates and the Money Game
- What’s Wrong With That Ebony Magazine ‘Cosby Show’ Cover?
- Counterpoint: Political Correctness Has Entered a Hazardous Zone
- Counterpoint: The Positive Side of Political Polarization
- Point: There’s No Stopping the NFL Empire
