The Philadelphia Experiment

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

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.

We have to stop killing each other. 

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

On Nov. 6, during critical midterm elections, the vote will represent the most meaningful way to protest and bring about change.

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

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.

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.

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

We are all responsible for standing up for the sanctity of black lives. Because while so many of us are doing great work to sustain black lives, all of us have to do more.

I cannot help wondering why more of us did not spend 2016 engaging in the most peaceful protest of all – the vote.

The rash of videotaped incidents in which white people have called police on black people for trivial reasons has reached fever pitch.