The sudden death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has again revealed America's racial divide on [...]
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Category "Inquirer"
MOVE vs. The Bundys in black and white
THE AMMON Bundy-led standoff at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge is eerily similar to the MOVE crisis that [...]
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SRC rigged against Philly pupils
The Philadelphia School District, a $3 billion enterprise whose job is to educate mostly poor and black [...]
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Bigotry must not cloud Hartnett investigation
As darkness draped the streets of West Philadelphia, Edward Archer was caught on video walking up to [...]
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Blacks and police far apart on key issues
FOR JIM KENNEY, the first white mayor to helm the majority-non-white city of Philadelphia in 16 years, [...]
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In “Creed” Philadelphia fights poverty
“We’re Philadelphia and we fight.” That’s what Chip Kelly said early in his tenure as head coach of [...]
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Say no to Trump Muslim ban
ON SUNDAY, my son and I and watched President Obama speak from the White House in the [...]
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Paris terror attacks will not stop our visit
I can still remember the day my daughter, Eve, promised to take me to Paris. I was sitting [...]
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Pope Francis visit: Poor Philly families left out
I find it ironic that as Pope Francis comes to join us for the World Meeting of Families, [...]
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School is in session. Futures are at stake.
PUBLIC SCHOOL is in session in Philadelphia, and the hopes of a generation will hang in the balance. It [...]
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Katrina a decade later
A DECADE ago, when Hurricane Katrina poured her wrath on the Gulf Coast, America wasn't prepared for [...]
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Solving the problem of prison overcrowding
WHEN NIGHT fell on Independence Day, I stood outside with my children and watched fireworks fill the [...]
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