• Give thanks for only thing that matters
Throngs of journalists across the country will likely use the timely yet trite concept in their Thanksgiving stories: Even in today's economy, they'll write, there are countless things for which to be thankful.

• Riot-era kids vanquish hate, change history
The black kids with whom I went to school, like me, are now 47 years old, the same age as Barack Obama. I can only imagine how they feel.