FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF Thomas Jackson identified the officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last Saturday [...]
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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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Keisha Williams is at peace. We are not
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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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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