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Community Voices

Why horror movies captivate us

LARRY SMITH - September 5, 2024

I am obsessively into movies of all genres. (Well, truth be told, I rarely fall in love with musicals.) I have a particular affinity for...

Opinion

On Leadership

LARRY SMITH - August 29, 2024

What is leadership? It should be self-evident that it is more than the title on a door or the seat at the head of a...

Community Voices

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,...

Arts & Culture

‘A genius who battled multiple demons’

LARRY SMITH - August 15, 2024

The Recorder honors James’ Baldwin for the centennium of his birth Writer Guy Hayes sat down with one of the Recorder’s regular contributors, Larry Smith,...

Community Voices

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...

Opinion

A supreme mess

LARRY SMITH - August 19, 2024

Remember, not so long ago, when Republicans pretended to dislike “judicial activism”? Well, a couple of weeks ago, the Republican-led Supreme Court decided that...

Opinion

Richard Nixon was correct

LARRY SMITH - August 19, 2024

How many times have you heard that phrase? I’m guessing that it’s not been frequent, but it’s true in at least one instance. In...

Community Voices

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...

Politics