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Race, class, crime, and Trump’s claim of presidential immunity
When a federal appeals court unanimously rejected Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity in connection with his [...]
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A would be-shoplifter, an abandoned baby, and addressing the new nature of crime
When I learned that a group of shoplifters fled security at a Northeast Philadelphia Walmart, leaving behind [...]
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With the discovery of the bodies of missing Michigan rappers, a new focus on rappers who were murdered
My generation invented Hip Hop. As music disappeared from schools and we began to make music of [...]
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As Tyre Nichols dies at the hands of the police, a lesson in whom the system stands up for
Five Memphis, Tenn., police officers were fired 10 days after civil rights activists say they brutalized a [...]
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Black history month begins just as DeSantis tries to erase Black history
Just in time for Black history month, Ron DeSantis is trying to erase Black history, so it’s [...]
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How do we stop the murders Philly? Ask the men whose lives are at risk
We’ve reached 300 homicides for 2022, but it took us two more days to reach that grim [...]
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The Senate gun control deal: Republicans can’t go too far, and Democrats won’t go far enough
This weekend, as kids across the country did a March for Our Lives to demand action on [...]
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When Trudy Haynes spoke, I listened. We all did.
In the days before every news story was centered in violence, journalism was about the things that [...]
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South Street should be sacred space for Black Philadelphia. Now it’s been tarnished by gun violence
On Saturday, as the in-person return of The Roots Picnic made national news, with the music of [...]
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Reaching through America’s chaos to find common ground
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Which means if America was a house, it would be [...]
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The Black Tulsa shooter was driven by rage, not race
Tulsa Oklahoma has been through hell before. It’s the place where Black Wall Street was burned to [...]
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