Can we be frank? We thought this was going to be much, much worse, people.
Charles Hamilton Houston, the venerable stalwart of the Howard University School of Law and mentor of Justice Thurgood Marshall, famously remarked that a lawyer is […]
Thursday I got a press release from the Philadelphia DNC 2016 Host Committee announcing “the installation of its 57 fiberglass ‘Donkeys Around Town.’” My first thought […]
The simple story is this: Yesterday, for about an hour or so, the I-676 ramp at Vine street was blocked by a 13-year-old boy, a […]
(Editor’s note: This is an opinion column from guest writer Evon Burton.) During Sunday evening’s BET Awards, actor and Temple alum Jesse Williams accepted the […]
Yes, I’m the guy who called out Justin Timberlake on Twitter. It all started Sunday night. I was watching the BET Awards and was beyond […]
What more can you write, post, scream, cry, cuss and pontificate about after a while? At some point, there’s a leaden numbness that creeps into […]
A 4-year-old girl died in North Philadelphia yesterday after a bullet exploded through her head. Think about the violence of that sentence for a second. […]
One of my most vivid memories in recent years is of the evening of November 20th, 2014, when I was in an overcrowded South Philly eatery […]
Nearly 15 years after the darkest day in American history, Philadelphia is set to commemorate the victims of that terrible day with a 9/11 memorial. Unfortunately, […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday (in the 5-to-3 decision on Utah v. Strieff) that evidence secured by police as the result of an unconstitutional […]
In 1992, as a 14 year-old boy I saw Spike Lee’s Malcolm X at Princeton MarketFair’s movie theatre with my cousin Sean. Seeing the movie was […]
