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David Clarke, Sheriff Sunken Place, lands job in Trump administration

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Donald Trump is imploding – and Barack Obama is somewhere smiling

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From Detroit to Liberia: Why I left America to find home

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Trump administration’s new drug policy is War on Drugs 2.0

Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal prosecutors to stop seeking leniency for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders.
/ May 16, 2017

How I kept faith after losing my baby boy

Life comes at you fast.   I never expected to face some of life’s most challenging moments — all in the course
/ May 15, 2017

Is Trump throwing the game to escape impeachment or prison time?

Is Donald Trump a madman like Kim Jong Un, or does he just play one on TV? To put it
/ May 6, 2017

Here’s who stands to lose the most if the GOP’s health care bill actually becomes law

The House of Representatives voted without analysis from the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a move which the former CBO…
/ May 5, 2017

No teen, no matter academic status, deserves to die

If Jordan Edwards didn't receive a single good grade, he should still be alive.
/ May 3, 2017

Bethune founder would be appalled at Devos invitation to HBCU

It’s been confirmed. Betsy Devos, the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education who believes that HBCUs came out of “school choice,” rather
/ May 2, 2017

Obama is back and we need him now more than ever

Barack Obama is back, and we need him more than ever. It’s been merely 100 days since he left the
/ April 27, 2017

Toxic masculinity and its deadly grip on the black community

If we are ever going grow as a community, we must start addressing these problems head on, because toxic masculinity…
/ April 19, 2017

Let’s stop making mentally ill people the scapegoat for violence

If we want to help people to become mentally healthy, then it’s likely best we not assume who they are…
/ April 18, 2017

‘Chasing Trane’ brings an overlooked John Coltrane back to life

Documentary about the life of jazz great aims for a higher plane — to breakthrough to people with open minds,…
/ April 13, 2017

What we must do to sustain a truly resistant civil rights movement

There are critical lessons this generation’s marchers must be mindful of in order to generate a truly resistant and transformative…
/ April 12, 2017

‘The Kalief Browder Story’ is like dying with your eyes open

Spike TV’s six-part doc "Time: The Kalief Browder Story"left many viewers with a cold ball of anger.
/ April 12, 2017