Question of the day: Miss Independent is more than a song by Ne-Yo. It's real. African American women [...]
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The last minute Valentine’s Day gift
IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY, and my life is in a shambles, because I can't afford flowers. I know what [...]
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Have you had the “police talk” with your sons?
Question of the Day The latest Philadelphia-based accusation of police brutality involved a teenage boy being frisked. A female [...]
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Parents: Should we legalize marijuana?
I RECENTLY WROTE a blog post saying that marijuana should not be legalized, because in my experience, [...]
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Super Bowl ads were better than the game
THE SUPER BOWL was on in my house last weekend, but I was the only one who [...]
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Communities must have voice on Land Bank
WHEN DEVELOPMENT proponents speak of the Philadelphia Land Bank as a step toward eliminating the city’s 40,000 [...]
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The truth about blacks and racial profiling
Question of the Day: You're black. Or Latino. Or a liberal white person. In your mind everyone should [...]
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Would you accept his crazy diet demands?
Question of the day: You don't typically like to work out but you don't mind taking a stroll [...]
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Apparent Hoffman overdose brings drug war home
OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR Phillip Seymour Hoffman struggled with heroin in his youth, relapsed after more than two decades, [...]
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One nation divided by race
AS I WATCHED President Obama deliver his State of the Union address, I was drawn to the [...]
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The cold truth about winter fashion ideas
WINTER fashion ideas can be tricky, because no matter what you do to make that puffy coat [...]
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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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