Opinion & Essay

As I read the new stories about the Clinton Foundation, I’m reminded of what deputy marshal Tommy Lee Jones drawled when he saw the ...

This week, the New York Times reported that there are 1.5 million missing black men between the ages of 25 and 54 in America. The ...

A ritual of every Philadelphia mayor’s race is vying for the endorsement of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity. T ...

Gentrification is a heart-breaking concern in the black community, which is being forced out of neighborhoods, because developers see potential that residents can't afford.

There was a time when my wife and I bowled every Monday night.  We weren’t part of a league and we never were the kind ...

We shouldn’t let Earth Day pass us by without talking a bit about Bob Inglis. You’ve probably never heard of Inglis ...

Sometimes what’s newsworthy is not what politicians say, but what they don’t say. Like last weekend, when 19 ...

Since Hillary Clinton is hammering every Republican in the polls – ...

I believe that a plurality of opinions and experiences makes the neighborhood strong. I don't have any interest in living on a block where every person is some version of me.

There’s a strange thing about this Philadelphia mayor’s race: One of the most influential players is hardly ever mentioned in ...

I have a smidgen of sympathy for Judith Miller, who for the past decade has been arguably the most reviled journalist in America. ...