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 [...]
Read moreWhy would a black minister endorse Trump?
When anger shouts haughtily over reason, and fear drowns out truth, honesty is sometimes lost in the [...]
Read moreParis terror attacks will not stop our visit
I can still remember the day my daughter, Eve, promised to take me to Paris. I was sitting [...]
Read moreJohn Boehner, Pope Francis, and the GOP
In order to understand the position in which Boehner found himself just prior to his announcement that [...]
Read morePope Francis visit: Poor Philly families left out
I find it ironic that as Pope Francis comes to join us for the World Meeting of Families, [...]
Read moreAhmed Mohamed: Muslim is the new black
I was angry when I read the story of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, an Irving Tx., teen who [...]
Read moreSchool is in session. Futures are at stake.
PUBLIC SCHOOL is in session in Philadelphia, and the hopes of a generation will hang in the balance. It [...]
Read moreDon’t blame Black Lives Matter
Daron Goforth, a Houston-area sheriff’s deputy, was killed when Shannon Miles allegedly approached from behind and pumped [...]
Read moreKatrina a decade later
A DECADE ago, when Hurricane Katrina poured her wrath on the Gulf Coast, America wasn't prepared for [...]
Read morePhilly schools could be broke by mid-October
When I was a child, the start of the school year was a time of giddy anticipation. That [...]
Read moreSolving the problem of prison overcrowding
WHEN NIGHT fell on Independence Day, I stood outside with my children and watched fireworks fill the [...]
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