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Run DNC

LARRY SMITH - August 22, 2024

It’s tricky to rock a DNC that’s in prime time. Nevertheless, the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago this week. (Truth be told,...

Opinion

Improving Black health and wealth

ANDRE CARSON - August 21, 2024

Two years ago this month, the Inflation Reduction Act became law. Congressional Democrats and the Biden Harris administration championed this bill because we need an...

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Politics and part-time patriotism

LARRY SMITH - August 14, 2024

Throughout our history, Americans have often (though certainly not always) striven to build a wall, or at least a fence, to separate church from...

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Sparks that sharpen

SHEILA P. SPENCER - July 17, 2024

“As iron sharpens iron, one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17 This verse made me research the actual process of what happens when iron sharpens iron....

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Deciding in the Shadows

Mandi Patterson - July 2, 2024

“My heart is steadfast, O God; my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make melody. Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre!...

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More than skin deep

LARRY SMITH - June 27, 2024

The brilliant Harlem Renaissance writer and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, is frequently cited for her aphorism, “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” Hurston was referencing...

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The dream and pursuits of the liberty of the U.S. and Haiti

ANGELIQUE WALKER-SMITH - June 27, 2024

This month, the U.S commemorates its Declaration of Independence that was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The founders of...

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