Speak Easy

I am an educator because I choose to invest in the future of blackness.

I sometimes wish I could stop talking about race, just for a day. It gets exhausting. I shouldn’t have to defend my race on a daily basis.

It’s the responsibility of people like me to keep looking for people like him to make those chance encounters more than just shouting matches on the street.

Can a human being change? Can a culture? It's not too late to begin.

Civil disobedience is our obligation, not our right. If we do not stand up, ignorance wins. As long as we feel inequality, we cannot say that we live in a post-racial society.

Philadelphia is in the midst of a debate about "safe-injection sites." Those opposed found voice in state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, but his statements are ill-informed.

Never has a Hollywood blockbuster film captured Africa and her people in such rich, layered, multitudinous ways.

Cognitive decline robs people of their identity, independence and financial security. The banking industry may be able to help identify it before dire financial impact.

My parents and I were not born Eagles fans. We earned our Eagles pride. It took years, but we were persuaded of the righteousness of our city's gritty underdogs.

It’s not rocket science. It’s not even algebra 2. It’s a no-duh equation: Countries with more stringent gun controls clock fewer gun murders.

It is time to stop sentencing thousands of Philadelphia’s children to a lifetime of poverty and despair, thanks to public schools that offer them virtually no chance at a succ

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. It's a perfect opportunity to talk to young people.

Since 1985, the group has directly confronted gatekeepers who manage, curate, collect, and critique art, staging public actions that are both fact-based and fun.

Let's step back a bit from the commercialization frenzy, and offer simple, sincere, inexpensive, and inclusive sentiments to one another.

You may have heard about a Facebook group dedicated to undermining 'Black Panther,' the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first nonwhite superhero movie.