UPDATE: SUSPECTS CHARGED JONATHAN ROSA and CORNELIUS CRAWFORD, who allegedly carjacked, robbed, and sexually assaulted a female realtor at [...]
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Category "About the News"
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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LeBron James to Cleveland? Why?
I HAVE MIXED emotions about LeBron James’s return to Cleveland. On the one hand, I’m glad the brother [...]
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Don’t blame Nicki Minaj. Blame parents
A COUPLE of days ago, I read a story on Philly.com talking about an investigation Mayor Michael [...]
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Helping Philly’s Liberian fire victims
SOMETIMES STORIES are too heartbreaking to understand. Such is the case with the fire that killed four children in [...]
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Independence from Nicki Minaj
INDEPENDENCE DAY should have served as relief from a year in which our children suffered terribly. It should have been [...]
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One father’s imperfect Philadelphia story
NEARLY TWO years ago when I began writing "The Philadelphia Experiment," I was determined to find the good [...]
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Independence Day in red white and black
WHEN YOU LIVE in Philadelphia, you can’t help but notice Independence Day. American history is kind of everywhere you [...]
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Boehner lawsuit threat is latest Obama insult
IN THE LATEST strike at President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner sent a memo to fellow House [...]
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