If ideas died with people, America would have won the fight against modern-day terrorism by killing al-Qaeda [...]
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Say no to Trump Muslim ban
ON SUNDAY, my son and I and watched President Obama speak from the White House in the [...]
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Dont Diss Dads Influence On Childrens Lives
THERE IS A CREEPING SENSE of bitterness in our society - an ugly cynicism that says that [...]
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Solomon Jones on Raising Kids
I'VE PARENTED both as a noncustodial father and as a married father, and the experiences are vastly [...]
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Its good to be a bat mitzah
THIS WEEKEND we went to a bat mitzvah. For many black families, this peek into Jewish tradition [...]
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Solomon Jones Celebrates His Greatest role: Father
MY 13-YEAR-OLD daughter, Eve, has been onstage since before she was born. As the star of so [...]
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The Way We Were & A Love Ongoing
WHEN LAVETA caught me in her smoldering stare for the first time, we fell in love. I [...]
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The Great Flood of 2015
IT WAS EARLY Saturday morning when I burrowed beneath the covers, my lips turned up in a [...]
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I took my kids to see Selma. I had to.
I TOOK MY family to see "Selma," the Golden Globe-nominated film that portrays the bloody battle for [...]
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Solomon Jones on working and not working
ANYONE who knows me knows how hard I work. In fact, people often joke that I'm Jamaican - [...]
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2015: Reflecting on Ferguson, Rihanna and more
FATHERHOOD was tough for me in 2014, because there were moments in which it was impossible to laugh. There was the moment [...]
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A daughters light shines through the dark times
THE LAST FEW WEEKS have been trying times for me as a father. The debate on police [...]
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