Jerald McNair

I recall the days when having a fistfight didn't mean your life had to end. In the neighborhood where I grew up, an occasional fight wasn't uncommon. Sometimes it started...

What should parents think about the shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, where police say 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley fatally shot four students and wounded seven others? Safety is already...

Remember rock-paper-scissors? When I was young, we used this game to settle disputes or simply as a way to have fun. The scissors cut the paper, the rock smashed the...

The verdict is in. Yet, the case of Kyle Rittenhouse was about more than just a teenager who felt he had to shoot three people, two fatally, in Kenosha. It's...

There used to be a time when you would ask children what they wanted to be when they grew up. Many of them would say a teacher or a police...

What happened to "It takes a village to raise a child"? It's an African proverb that used to be quoted routinely. When we hear the phrase now, it doesn't elicit...

In 2021, Chicago is on pace for another record year of gun violence, even outpacing 2020. We are at about the halfway point, and more people have been killed than...

I was sitting in my car eating a sandwich after purchasing it from a local fast-food chain. I was surprised and somewhat upset to see someone throw their entire garbage...

In late January, I wrote an op-ed, "Solutions to carjacking can come from the Black community too." And they are. Over recent weeks, community activists have played an integral role...

The Black Lives Matter movement made some major strides in bringing awareness to how Black men are treated by law enforcement. The deaths of George Floyd, Manuel Ellis, Andre Maurice...