By LEONARD PITTS JR. So all we know for sure is that something happened in Gloucester, Mass. What that something was depends on whom you believe.

By LEONARD PITTS JR. The bird, placed recently on a bank of file cabinets in the newsroom of The Miami Herald, drew flowers, wine, pennies, peppermint, dolls, candles and other oblations.

By LEONARD DEAR DAUGHTER: I have loved you from the moment I met you. You were still wet from the birth canal, hair matted to your scalp, eyes squeezed shut. They dried you off, cut the cord, placed you in a bassinet under a warming light. I went over to you. My hand covered your torso.

By Leonard Pitts Jr. The final campaign of Martin Luther King is as relevant today as 40 years ago, when workers stood up for their rights Forty years later, they are old men, many with bent backs and gingerly steps.

By LEONARD GASTON, N.C. "WHO YOU IS?" That's how a student greeted me years ago in a Miami classroom. I waited to see how the teacher would respond to this insult against grammar, but she did the last thing I expected: She answered the question, as if it had been posed in English.