AS A MEMBER organization in a coalition called the Campaign To Take Back Vacant Land, the Women's Community [...]
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Voting rights and wrongs
WHEN PRESIDENT Barack Obama told a New York audience that the push to restrict voting rights was [...]
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Karyn Washington and the truth on black mental health
AT JUST 22, Karyn Washington was a dark skinned woman who became an online sensation by turning her [...]
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MIMIC: Ex-offenders mentoring boys of color
IT SEEMS so long ago now, the life of drug dealing, violence and retaliation that Edwin Desamour [...]
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Can Solomon escape the Lego store?
ON SATURDAY, I came home to something I don't often experience as a man with a wife [...]
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Scandal Thursday!
Question of the day: It's Scandal Thursday! In a previous episode we learned that the first lady, Millie, [...]
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Real help for girls of color
DENISE CLAY made an impassioned plea for black girls in her column titled For colored girls whose [...]
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Thank you Chuck Stone: 1924-2014
PHILADELPHIA IS segregated and diverse, impoverished and affluent, corrupt and pristine. But even with all its contradictions, [...]
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The Fort Hood shooting and the truth about veterans
WEDNESDAY, AROUND 4 p.m. A tranquil Texas afternoon was shattered by the sound of a .45-caliber semi-automatic [...]
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DeSean Jackson Rant: Video commentary from Solomon Jones
I AWAKENED at 3 in the morning and learned DeSean Jackson to the Redskins was a done [...]
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WWCD: What would Carolyn do?
IN MY years as a father, I've learned one simple truth: Parenting never gets easier. If your life [...]
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Race, Riley Cooper, and the DeSean Jackson release
LIKE MANY BLACK FANS, I saw a hint of racial bias when DeSean Jackson was released by [...]
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