Well, Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of Tesla, and soon-to-be owner of Twitter has shown his cards.When [...]
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Category "About the News"
The O’Jays Last Tour Lets Us Know Black Music Matters
Black music is the soundtrack of America. Negro Spirituals during slavery and Jim Crow. Jazz during the [...]
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Proposed FDA ban on menthol cigarettes could have Black lives up in smoke
The Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban menthol cigarettes. That means no more Newports. No [...]
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Dr. Ala Stanford’s rise to regional director for the US Dept. of Health and Human Services is about all of us
When I heard that Philly’s own Dr. Ala Stanford had been named regional director of the U.S. [...]
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The weaponization of education against Black kids didn’t stop with Tracey Meares
Our children are under attack, and education is the weapon of choice. It’s always been that way [...]
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Florida’s culture wars are not just about hating people. They’re about loving money
The culture wars are firmly centered in Florida, where the Florida Department of Education recently rejected more than [...]
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Ban my book. Then stand back and watch it change the world
To governors and state legislatures in states like Florida, to school boards in conservative areas across the [...]
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At ManUpPHL, stopping gun violence is about creating opportunities for change
Yesterday in Philadelphia, there were 13 separate shootings. One person died, and 12 were injured. Thirteen lives [...]
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My family’s close brush with gun violence was a reminder for all of us
Our children are dying as gun violence rips through our communities, and too many of us are [...]
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Chris Rock’s brother speaks out on the slap, but the situation must be handled fairly
In less than two weeks, the board of directors of the Motion Picture Academy will meet to [...]
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is every Black woman who ever nurtured me
After contentious confirmation hearings in the Judiciary Committee, the full Senate is expected to approve Judge Ketanji [...]
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Confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed the value of Black womanhood
The full Senate has confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it [...]
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