SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, a carjacked vehicle spun out of control and struck Keisha Williams, three of her children [...]
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We used to be in love. Now what?
Being in love: The dope factor WHEN PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE it triggers events in the brain that are [...]
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Eric Garner: The new Rodney King
IN 1991, a large black man was beaten by four white police officers. The videotaped attack appeared to be [...]
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Garner homicide: Will cops be charged?
THE NEW YORK City Medical Examiner has found that a police chokehold killed 43-year-old Eric Garner during an [...]
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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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Boehner lawsuit is a “Mean Girls” episode
HAVE REPUBLICANS moved the federal government to a little country town? I ask because in the aftermath of President Obama's [...]
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Charges filed in deadly carjacking: Now what?
UPDATE: SUSPECTS CHARGED JONATHAN ROSA and CORNELIUS CRAWFORD, who allegedly carjacked, robbed, and sexually assaulted a female realtor at [...]
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Schools, vices and the sin tax
AMONG THE MANY things that are making me scratch my head in relation to the School District of [...]
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Is gay the new black?
IN A RECENT interview with the Tampa Tribune, former Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungy remarked that [...]
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Eric Garner died in a government drug war
On Thursday, July 17, drug-related violence claimed the life of a husband and father on a New [...]
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What is blackness?
THIS PAST Saturday, my ultra-talented friend Tiffany Bacon had me on her Praise 103.9 FM radio show “Praise [...]
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His marriage is going strong after 14 years, and thats golden
LAST WEEK was my 14th wedding anniversary. That's right, the big one-four. I know 14 years isn't a [...]
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