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The Philadelphia Experiment Archive

Students from a Kentucky Catholic High School appeared to harass and mock a Native American demonstrator during a rally in Washington D.C. (NBC10)
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Community

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.

3 years ago

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes his fist during a speech in Selma, Ala., Feb. 12, 1965. King was engaged in a battle with Sheriff Jim Clark over voting rights and voter registration in Selma. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

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.

3 years ago

#MuteRKelly supporters protest outside R. Kelly's studio, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 in Chicago. Lifetime's
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Community

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."

3 years ago

Kensington Avenue on Friday, November 23, 2018. (Solomon Jones for WHYY)
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Community

Rethinking the Kensington drug crisis

I went to Kensington on Black Friday and saw the devastation of the heroin crisis.

4 years ago

(monkeybusinessimages/BigStock)
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Community

Be thankful for your family

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.

4 years ago

Police gather at the scene of a fatal shooting in the center row home in Philadelphia, Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. Police say two men and two women have been found shot and killed in a basement in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Time to start lifting each other

We have to stop killing each other. 

4 years ago

Veteran Patrick Watson places a wreath at the base of a new Mural Arts Philadelphia piece titled
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Community

Let’s give veterans what they deserve

As we celebrate yet another Veteran’s Day, I’m left to consider all the scandals that have beset America’s veterans in recent years ...

4 years ago

Voters use electronic polling machines as they cast their votes early at the Franklin County Board of Elections, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Yes, America, is mine

As thousands of migrants walk to America to escape the violence in Central America, I’m disappointed that a president who is the son of ...

4 years ago

A gun lies on the ground inside a police barricade following a shooting at a Kroger grocery that left two people dead and a suspect in custody, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, in Jeffersontown, Ky.  A male suspect fatally shot a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, and then exchanged fire with an armed bystander before fleeing the scene, police said. He was captured shortly afterward. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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Community

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.

4 years ago

T.I. performs on stage at ONE Musicfest on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in Atlanta. (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Of caring and Trump

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.

4 years ago

Sharon Canner, 75, and her husband Steve Canner, 81, of Reston, Va., hold up letters spelling
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Courts & Law

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.

4 years ago

Left: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Politics & Policy

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

4 years ago

Students line up outside Joseph Pennell Elementary on the first day of school. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Education

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.

4 years ago

Last week, just days before he was to leave for Penn State,Kristian Marche (right) was shot and killed. (youtu.be/kmSAq0Y8sT8)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

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.

4 years ago

Stax Museum remembers Aretha Franklin. Stax is just a short distance away from the home where Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tenn. Franklin died early Thursday. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Arts & Entertainment

Aretha defined ‘Respect’

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

4 years ago

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