I REMEMBER Philadelphia’s open-air drug markets. They thrived in the city’s poorest communities like drug-fueled drive-thrus that sometimes [...]
Read moreBoehner lawsuit is a “Mean Girls” episode
HAVE REPUBLICANS moved the federal government to a little country town? I ask because in the aftermath of President Obama's [...]
Read moreCharges filed in deadly carjacking: Now what?
UPDATE: SUSPECTS CHARGED JONATHAN ROSA and CORNELIUS CRAWFORD, who allegedly carjacked, robbed, and sexually assaulted a female realtor at [...]
Read moreSchools, vices and the sin tax
AMONG THE MANY things that are making me scratch my head in relation to the School District of [...]
Read moreIs gay the new black?
IN A RECENT interview with the Tampa Tribune, former Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungy remarked that [...]
Read moreEric Garner died in a government drug war
On Thursday, July 17, drug-related violence claimed the life of a husband and father on a New [...]
Read moreWhat is blackness?
THIS PAST Saturday, my ultra-talented friend Tiffany Bacon had me on her Praise 103.9 FM radio show “Praise [...]
Read moreHis marriage is going strong after 14 years, and thats golden
LAST WEEK was my 14th wedding anniversary. That's right, the big one-four. I know 14 years isn't a [...]
Read moreLeBron James to Cleveland? Why?
I HAVE MIXED emotions about LeBron James’s return to Cleveland. On the one hand, I’m glad the brother [...]
Read moreText of Dan Gilbert Letter to LeBron James
Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert posted this letter on the Cavaliers website in 2010, after LeBron James' announcement [...]
Read moreDon’t blame Nicki Minaj. Blame parents
A COUPLE of days ago, I read a story on Philly.com talking about an investigation Mayor Michael [...]
Read moreHelping Philly’s Liberian fire victims
SOMETIMES STORIES are too heartbreaking to understand. Such is the case with the fire that killed four children in [...]
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