St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced Monday night that Ferguson (Mo.) Police Officer Darren Wilson has [...]
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Category "Newsworks"
Bill Cosby should receive due process
The Bill Cosby I know is a generous man who advised me as I sought to write [...]
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One veteran’s fight for home
It was the day after Christmas 2012, and Robert Long was out of options. The New Jersey native [...]
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Michael Brown and the effects of colorism
The outcry triggered by the killings of unarmed men by police officers — from Michael Brown's shooting [...]
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Corbett uses Mumia as political pawn
I'VE NEVER BEEN emotionally invested in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the radio journalist convicted for the murder [...]
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It is time for the SRC to go
ON THE DAY THINGS CHANGED, Philadelphia public-school teachers reported to work, as they always do, in a [...]
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Hard questions as Michael Brown is buried
REST IN PEACE. It’s the platitude we will hear today as Michael Brown’s parents bury their child. Brown [...]
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Keisha Williams is at peace. We are not
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, a carjacked vehicle spun out of control and struck Keisha Williams, three of her children [...]
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Corruption fuels Philly drug game
I REMEMBER Philadelphia’s open-air drug markets. They thrived in the city’s poorest communities like drug-fueled drive-thrus that sometimes [...]
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Helping Philly’s Liberian fire victims
SOMETIMES STORIES are too heartbreaking to understand. Such is the case with the fire that killed four children in [...]
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One father’s imperfect Philadelphia story
NEARLY TWO years ago when I began writing "The Philadelphia Experiment," I was determined to find the good [...]
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The Sandusky investigation missed the injustice
THE INVESTIGATION that led to the 2012 child molestation conviction of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry [...]
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