In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had ...

The phone call surprised me, 25 summers ago. Maureen Houston, editor of the Belleville News Democrat’s Sunday Magazine, asked if I was interested in writing a column. I told Maureen that I’d think ...

WHERE DO YOUR TEXTS COME FROM? What's at SAAM is my writing that I use less and less all the time. But I haven't a clue where that comes from, other than my dark past, maybe. I'm more likely to use ...

One day when I was speaking to a third grade class, one little girl asked, "How long does it take to write a column?" "A lifetime," I told her. And truly, we carry a lifetime around in our brains. For ...

Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Columnist LZ Granderson has received the Excellence in Column Writing Award in the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards competition. The ...