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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

New world orderless

LARRY SMITH - June 13, 2024

At a meeting with Western powers in November 1956, Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech in which he warned his Cold War...

Community Voices

The cost of free speech

LARRY SMITH - August 19, 2024

It is fair to say that Salman Rushdie, the widely celebrated author, is one of the world’s foremost champions of free speech. Rushdie, who...

Politics

No more excuses

LARRY SMITH - August 19, 2024

Remember Shirley Sherrod? Relatively few people do. Ms. Sherrod was hired in 2009 to work for then President Barack Obama’s USDA as its Georgia...

Business

Indianapolis nonprofit celebrates 30 years of empowering men and their families

HEAVYN LESTER - February 29, 2024

A buff-brick building sits on a busy one-way street near Downtown Indianapolis. It is swallowed by a host of maple trees, the Indianapolis Children’s...

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