On Wednesday I moderated a WHYY forum featuring a panel of black scholars talking about Thurgood Marshall, [...]
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School financing 101: Where are we now?
There are a lot of things that you probably know about me thanks to the bio that’s [...]
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Solomon Jones Offers His Home to Democratic Conventioneers-For A Price
WHEN THE Democratic National Convention brings over $100 million in economic impact to the Philadelphia region in [...]
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Top 5 Live-February 17
Top 5 Live –WURD Tuesday February 17 1. Snowfall prompts school closings for Philadelphia schools A storm that continues [...]
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Can $35 million buy the Philadelphia School District?
Is the Philadelphia School District up for sale? It seems to be the central question facing taxpayers in [...]
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Lower Merions Racial Snowstorm
Before Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., there was Erin Forbes in Lower Merion, Pa. Forbes, the African American [...]
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Obama to Democrats: Stop Running From Who You Are
On Thursday evening, as I waited with the press corps for President Obama’s address to the House [...]
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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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I saw myself in the Eric Garner tragedy
THE IMAGE was horrific. An unarmed father of six, choked from behind by a police officer on [...]
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Commissioner Charles Ramsey on Garner
On Thursday's Wake Up With WURD on 900 am WURD, Solomon Jones interviewed Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles [...]
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Bill Cosby rape stories no laughing matter
“We’re coming at you with music and fun… And if you’re not careful, you may learn something before [...]
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Bill Cosby should receive due process
The Bill Cosby I know is a generous man who advised me as I sought to write [...]
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