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The Philadelphia Experiment Archive
Learning to take responsibility for your actions
Some say a new video depicting a confrontation between a Native American elder and schoolboys wearing "MAGA" hats excuses the boys' disrespectful behavior.
5 years ago
Remembering Martin Luther King’s gift of rhetoric
As I prepared to celebrate the Martin Luther King holiday, I listened to a sermon King delivered in a little Baptist church in Chicago in 1967.
6 years ago
An open letter to R. Kelly: We hear your accusers
Meet our outrage. Much of the black community is sickened by what we saw in the Lifetime documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly."
6 years ago
Rethinking the Kensington drug crisis
I went to Kensington on Black Friday and saw the devastation of the heroin crisis.
6 years ago
While I should be counting my blessings, I can’t stop thinking of 15-year-old Kidron Roberts, who was charged with killing a Camden High School freshman several days ago.
6 years ago
Let’s give veterans what they deserve
6 years ago
6 years ago
Hate dies in the light of exposure
This weekend, when I learned that someone had walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, I thought of my Jewish friend, Susan Jacobs.
6 years ago
Sooner or later, someone was going to respond to Donald Trump’s uncouth behavior with the same level of rudeness that the president has often exhibited.
6 years ago
Take part in the ultimate protest by voting on Nov. 6
On Nov. 6, during critical midterm elections, the vote will represent the most meaningful way to protest and bring about change.
6 years ago
Allegations against Kavanaugh bring back memories of Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill
When I heard that Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was at risk due to accusations that he sexually assaulting a woman decades ago, I thought of Clarence Thomas
6 years ago
A prayer for seizing opportunity
As our Philly students start a new school year, I know they feel like they have all the time in the world to fulfill their dreams. But I have 3 words for them: Life is short.
6 years ago
Beyond solving young man’s murder, we must solve what’s wrong in our society
My youngest brother was a close friend of Kristian Marche, the two-sport star from Imhotep who was shot in the head before he could attend Penn State on a track scholarship.
6 years ago
Franklin's rendition of Respect spelled out what it meant to be black in America, to be a woman in this society, to be beautiful in a world that defined beauty as the polar op
6 years ago
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