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There is hardly anything in life whose appearance is not shaped by perspective. From the planet Mercury, just 30-some-odd million miles from the Sun, the sun fills the entire horizon during the day, and the temperatures for humans would…
A select group of publishers who belong to the National Newspaper Publishers Association met with Education Secretary Arne Duncan in Washington, D.C., recently to discuss education issues that directly impact African Americans throughout the country. Each publisher voiced their concerns…
The NAACP, Taken to Task I read the article in your February 14-20 edition about the NAACP joining the fight against the soda ban with disbelief. The NAACP seems to be without any principles when it comes to issues that…
"It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men fluent in speech and able to argue their way through; but rather honest men, men who can be trusted in public…
This is the beginning of a series of articles about street gangs in our nation. Gone are the days back in the 1960s and before when gangs were social organizations and were geographically linked. Beginning in the 1970s, these street…
There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the top of the list is Gov. George C. Wallace's June 11, 1963 "Stand in the School House Door" at the University…
The selection of Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next leader of the Catholic Church was, in some ways, inevitable. Latin America is home to the largest Catholic population in the world, and it has been more than past…
President Obama is now in Israel for his first trip there as (well) "Commander in Chief." In my ongoing scenario where the Israeli tail wags the American dog, the president has finally come to "heel." You see in American Kennel…
As a result of Ohio's Republican Senator Rob Portman's declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am once again compelled to ask: Why are Christians and conservatives constantly apologizing for what they believe? Portman said he changed…
Diversity Reflected in Black History Editions I would like to congratulate the Washington Informer for a series of well-thought out and informative Black History sections throughout the month of February. I was particularly impressed with writer Barrington Salmon's Brown Babies…
African American women in the nation's capital stand a far less chance of getting breast cancer than white women. However, African-American women die from breast cancer at a greater rate than white women. Why? There may be many reasons, including…
They're our home team. We're with them when they win and we refuse to abandon them when they lose. We want them to be the best team in the National Football League, and we put lots of money behind them…
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