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Obama a marker on post-racial path

Editor's note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee....

Mayoral charter fees are fair, says councilman

In his Feb. 15 opinion piece, Abdul-Hakim Shabazz criticized my recent proposal for the Indianapolis mayor to collect a nominal administrative fee from charter...

Making mistakes. Achieving redemption. Mike Tyson and Dwayne Brown

Mike Tyson and Dwayne Brown were African-Americans who achieved fame and made history in their 20s only to experience felony convictions, humiliations and some...

New York school is IDEAL for teaching students diversity and inclusion

When you were younger, were you ever picked on or teased? Did a peer make fun of you because of your appearance or the...

Django, in chains

Editor's note: Jesse Williams is an actor/producer who plays Dr. Jackson Avery on the TV series "Grey's Anatomy." He is a Temple University graduate...

What is Brian Mahern thinking – or is he?

Although I may have quietly suspected this for a while, I am convinced that Indianapolis City-County Council member Brian Mahern does not like Black...

If charter schools are so good, how come there’s none in Meridian-Kessler?

A paragraph caught my eye in an Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) story this week about charter schools in Indianapolis. IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin interviewed...

State of the Union Address: a rehash of Obama’s ideas

Perhaps President Obama is already so comfortable in his second term that his State of the Union speech Tuesday night failed to excite me...

Call it control or reform, but something needs to be done about guns

It seems like only yesterday that I was writing an editorial about gun control. Though my most recent writing on the subject was actually...

Change lifestyle to save your heart

She’s a 31-year-old African-American woman and she’s already concerned about heart disease. Megan Bailey knows the disease runs in her blood, literally, taking the...

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