For 246 years our laws supported a system that made people slaves, divided families, and treated human beings as property. And for nearly 100 after Reconstruction, that dark legacy continued with Jim Crow laws throughout the country.

It was precisely 47 years ago on Saturday, June 17, 1972 at 1:47 a.m. that Frank Wills, an unknown 24-year-old Black security guard at the posh Watergate office/apartment complex in Washington, D.C., uncovered the biggest domestic political scandal and crime in American presidential history.

I’m willing to bet that Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Richard Ross wish they had thousands more Philadelphians with “gang connections” — as DeSean Jackson was once so unfairly stereotyped as having — replicating the heavy lifting in the community that the Philadelphia Eagles wide …

The April unemployment rate, at 3.6%, was the lowest since December 1969. Payroll employment increased by more than 250,000, outperforming expectations and reversing the disappointing job creation numbers of last month. First-quarter growth was reported at 3.2%, a robust figure that exceeds …

W.C. Fields’ famous line, “I am free of all prejudices; I hate everyone equally,” sounded like a new motto for Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota’s rising Democratic firebrand, when she took a verbal poke at, of all people, former President Barack Obama.