A word from the administrator

4 years ago

I am glad to see the squabbling has been reduced in recent days. This is not Facebook, and some of…

U.S. needs a Truth Commission on race

4 years ago

After winning his decades-long battle to end apartheid in his homeland, and becoming South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela…

No, ‘no cop zone’ in Philly

4 years ago

No reporter can ever cover every angle of a story, even when they know them. When I wrote a few…

Race: who taught you to hate?

4 years ago

“End racism.” We hear the cry daily, but how? Where does racism begin? We are not born with it. Are…

Memory: The black Red Tails were America’s best

4 years ago

In conjunction with Juneteenth, I reprise a column that ran in the Philadelphia Daily News in May 2008. It was…

A word about racist images

4 years ago

Are all these images racist? Which ones? Why? Let me say at the start that Quaker Oats, which owns Aunt…

What to do with Parkway homeless

4 years ago

Remember Rachel Canning? She was the New Jersey 18-year-old who moved out of her parents home in 2014, then sued…

Christopher Columbus: Put him on trial

4 years ago

Christopher Columbus says, “Don’ta trust you mayor.” He means Mayor Gutless, who has punted the issue of the statue of…

A racial word to the wise

4 years ago

I don’t know if the spasm we are living through is more like the French Revolution, or Communist China’s Cultural…

The low down on Philly cops

4 years ago

This will end my trilogy about police, with local reporting I have done on the Philadelphia Police Department, which has…