The Philadelphia Experiment Archive
Pennsylvania seniority bill advances the war on teachers
I’ve watched with a mix of amazement and chagrin as the blame for a crumbling school system has been callously laid at teachers’ feet
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George Zimmerman’s gun and the family it changed forever
When I learned that George Zimmerman was attempting to auction off the gun he used to kill unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, I w
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Prince dies at 57, but his influence on race and music lives on
Prince, who died today at 57, was more cultural force than musician. While his soaring guitar riffs and piercing falsetto voice spoke vol
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Clinton and Sanders visit Philly, show contrasting styles
I watched Hillary Clinton when she took the stage Wednesday at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention at the Sheraton Hotel i
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Wolf allows GOP budget to become law, but the damage is already done
While school districts across the Commonwealth were forced to borrow about $1 billion to survive the longest budget impasse in 60 years,
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A $600 million gamble that the building trades will change
As Philadelphia continues to gentrify, the business of building has become ever more lucrative. But data from city agencies indicate that
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Issues of race take center stage for Clinton and Trump
This week, race has moved out of the shadows and into the forefront of the presidential campaign.
Endorsements from former Ku Klux
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Remembering Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Acel Moore
When I heard that pioneering journalist Acel Moore passed away this weekend, neither his Pulitzer Prize nor his leading role in founding
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I’m not surprised that a white actor will play Michael Jackson
I watched with interest the selection of a white actor to play Michael Jackson in an upcoming British comedy. But I refused to work mysel
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Flint is just the latest example of America’s environmental racism
There is rage surrounding the discovery that the water supply in Flint, a majority black and impoverished city in Michigan, contains unac
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It’s time to finish King’s work on poverty
I have often thought that Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is woefully incomplete. We celebrate him as an almost mythical figure who
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Is Ammon Bundy a patriot or a terrorist?
If terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims, then the armed men who have occupied a building in
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Make 2016 a year of justice for all
For much of 2015, America was less than it could be.
Amid the anxiety caused by the ISIS terror threat and the resultant political
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Chicago police union seeks to destroy evidence. Good cops must stand up
After police stood by and watched now-former Officer Jason Van Dyke pump 16 bullets into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the Chicago police
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Dear President Obama, weapons can’t kill terrorist ideas
In a Sunday night speech from the Oval Office, President Obama called the deadly San Bernadino, California shooting “an act of terroris
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