IF THIS weekend's Made In America festival proved one thing, it showed that not much is made [...]
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Black Boys #RIP
NO ONE WILL be there to hug you in a coffin when you leave this unforgiving world. Nor [...]
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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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Send Ebola drug to Africa now
THE EBOLA VIRUS, which can kill up to 90 percent of those infected, has spread rapidly in Liberia, [...]
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Mo’Ne Davis for governor
RIGHT NOW, at least in Philadelphia, people who would normally get really mad if you told them [...]
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If Bey and Jay are on the rocks, the rest of us have more than 99 problems
I'M FLABBERGASTED, dumbfounded and shocked. In other words, I'm really surprised. Why am I so stunned, you ask? I'm [...]
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Brown’s mom: Arrest the killer of my child
AT A MONDAY press conference, Michael Brown’s family released the results of an independent autopsy performed by pathologist [...]
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Chief names cop who shot Michael Brown
FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF Thomas Jackson identified the officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last Saturday [...]
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Don’t tell us how to grieve Michael Brown
I HAVE ALWAYS believed that grief is personal. Grief is one of those things that you kinda have to [...]
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Robin Williams and the quest to save lives
Robin Williams' tragic death ABOUT A MONTH ago, when I learned that Robin Williams had suffered for years [...]
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Solomons plan to keep summer going all year long
THE CRAB GRASS covering my lawn is disappearing. My daughter Eve is shopping for school clothes. The days [...]
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Our hypocrisy on unaccompanied minors
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!" - Emma Lazarus, from a plaque [...]
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