WHEN PRESIDENT Barack Obama told a New York audience that the push to restrict voting rights was [...]
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The Fort Hood shooting and the truth about veterans
WEDNESDAY, AROUND 4 p.m. A tranquil Texas afternoon was shattered by the sound of a .45-caliber semi-automatic [...]
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Report: Black kids face more preschool suspensions
AS A BLACK FATHER, my concerns for my children are much the same as those of other [...]
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Lessons from Connecticut
LAST MONTH, I traveled to New Haven, Conn., to deliver speeches to two groups of young people. [...]
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Philly schools: It’s the principal
TO PARAPHRASE a saying that I heard once, “If you can bind up the strong leader, you [...]
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Lupita Nyong’o and the color barrier
ON SUNDAY night, as Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o climbed the stairs to accept her Academy Award, her [...]
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Dead body a bad sign for Parking Authority
IT SEEMS that a slew of recent snowstorms covered everything in Philadelphia, including Nadia Malik, 22, whose [...]
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Legalize marijuana? I don’t think so
Drug abuse doesn't begin with a needle in one's arm, like it reportedly ended for Oscar-winning actor [...]
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Justice and Jordan Davis
I AWAKENED ON SUNDAY morning praying for America. I prayed that I, as the black father of a [...]
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Seeing life through the snow
SNOW STORMS FORCE families to do what work, school and extracurricular activities often cause us to neglect. [...]
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How murder tears families apart
I’LL NEVER forget the night my wife and I walked out of Einstein Hospital after visiting a [...]
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