When I learned that a three-judge panel of the Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals had struck [...]
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Category "Newsworks"
Prince led sit-in against musical segregation
Prince, who died Wednesday at 57, was more cultural force than musician. While his soaring guitar riffs [...]
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders hit Philly
I watched Hillary Clinton when she took the stage Wednesday at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention at [...]
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White guy as Michael Jackson is Off the Wall
I watched with interest the selection of a white actor to play Michael Jackson in an upcoming [...]
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Flint water crisis is environmental racism
There is rage surrounding the discovery that the water supply in Flint, a majority black and impoverished [...]
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Transcript of Ammon Bundy remarks
A transcript of Ammon Bundy's remarks to reporters on day one of the armed militia takeover of a [...]
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Terrorism only dies with ideas
If ideas died with people, America would have won the fight against modern-day terrorism by killing al-Qaeda [...]
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Why would a black minister endorse Trump?
When anger shouts haughtily over reason, and fear drowns out truth, honesty is sometimes lost in the [...]
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John Boehner, Pope Francis, and the GOP
In order to understand the position in which Boehner found himself just prior to his announcement that [...]
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Ahmed Mohamed: Muslim is the new black
I was angry when I read the story of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, an Irving Tx., teen who [...]
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Don’t blame Black Lives Matter
Daron Goforth, a Houston-area sheriff’s deputy, was killed when Shannon Miles allegedly approached from behind and pumped [...]
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Philly schools could be broke by mid-October
When I was a child, the start of the school year was a time of giddy anticipation. That [...]
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