Small businesses and workers are going to need the most help from the government to recover from the economic distress caused by the coronavirus.
Opinion
It’s been a while since we’ve had occasion to write about freshman state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, the Clinton County Culture Warrior whose rep…
Renters tend to be more economically vulnerable than homeowners.
As our nation and world enter the full terrors of the COVID-19 crisis, the Children’s Defense Fund has been taking special steps to ensure tha…
COVID-19 is poised to become an extinction-level event for America’s nonprofits. Cultural institutions have been forced to close their doors. …
“Please guys, now is not the time,” pleads actor Idris Elba. “People need to know facts, need to understand the truth so that they can protect…
I believe a key understanding of having a relationship, a personal relationship with Christ has a lot to do with making conscious choices.
So Donald Trump is now calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus.” Of course he is: Racism and blaming other people for his own failures are the def…
As America struggles to confront the coronavirus outbreak, Washington has been consumed with getting money to households and businesses — but …
America’s catastrophically inadequate response to the coronavirus can be attributed largely to bad short-term decisions by one man. And I do m…
Michael Coard
When Gilbert “Gil” Scott-Heron first told America in 1970 that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” after having written it in 1968 at age 19, he literally set the stage for what would become part of the musical and poetic soundtrack for revolutionaries worldwide. And he didn’t stop until…
In the interest of full disclosure, I must point out that I enthusiastically support District Attorney Larry Krasner and Police Commissioner D… Read more
This is part 10 in my ongoing and periodic series entitled “Philly’s Jim Crow,” which started on Sept. 10, 2016, and focuses on racist employm… Read more
On Sept. 10, 2016, here in my weekly Philadelphia Tribune column, I began a periodic series titled “Philly’s Jim Crow,” which focuses on racis… Read more
In just a few days on March 6, it will be precisely 163 years ago that the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 issued the most blatantly racist but mos… Read more
A Philadelphian named Pierce Mease Butler who was the grandson of Major Pierce Butler — a signer of the U.S. Constitution, the author of the F… Read more
I’m writing this week’s article about George Washington because President’s Day this year is celebrated on Feb. 17. Read more
A person who betrays his or her country is guilty of statutory treason, meaning he or she is a traitor. A person who betrays his or her people… Read more
John Mitchell
If you spent any time in front of a television set, the greatest brainwasher of the 21st Century before the explosion of social media, following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, you may have been lured into believing the mythology that was being promoted.
If you are like most, you can follow the protocols — primitive as they may be — for dealing with coronavirus: Wash your hands frequently, avoi… Read more
You know that you have reached the fork in the road when you arrive upon an issue so incendiary that justifications for both its support and i… Read more
The theory of six degrees of separation contends that, because we are all linked by chains of acquaintance, you are just six introductions awa… Read more
Imagine being surrounded 24 hours a day by uber-violent hood rats whom you know will remorselessly kill you, a family member or a loved one fo… Read more
There is a reason why Henry Ford’s grandson, Henry Ford II, was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and not the grandfather, a geni… Read more
“I’ll be back more often.” Read more
I don’t envy Danielle Outlaw. Read more
Alonzo Kittrels' Back in the Day
Going back in time, there were a variety of ways in which families earned money to survive. Some will recall playing the numbers. There were n… Read more
Seeing a young boy or girl, 5 or 6 years of age, smartly dressed does something special to me. Usually, I smile and think about how things use… Read more
For the past several months, a commercial has appeared on television featuring the Apple iPhone 11. The ad highlights this device’s ability to… Read more
Over the next several days, many will come together to participate in banquets and luncheons to observe the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Lu… Read more
Whether it was after high school, trade school or college, most of us remember our first full-time job. Read more
Sahdayah has dreams for her future similar to those of many 17-year-old girls: She wants to have a good job, buy a car and own her own home wh… Read more
Daryl Bell
Lamar Stevens did it.
Hi. My name is Daryl and I am a recovering sportsaholic. Read more
Neumann-Goretti senior guard Diamond Johnson continues to set new marks. On Friday, Johnson was named the Gatorade Pennsylvania Girls Basketba… Read more
On Monday, the public formally got a chance to say goodbye to the pride and joy of Lower Merion High School and retired Los Angeles Lakers gre… Read more
The last time Glenn Robinson III strolled through the Wells Fargo Center as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers, he was sort of like a novelty … Read more
The rebooted XFL has officially christened its first star. Read more
Diamond Johnson, Neumann-Goretti’s sharp-shooting senior guard, is still trying to figure out why she was not selected to the 19th annual McDo… Read more
Glenn Ellis
As I write this column, state by state and city by city, all across this country “staples” in our lives are disappearing. Restaurants, public events and schools are closing one after another. While we all get used to this “new normal,” while going through the coronavirus pandemic, one of the…
Caribbean Currents
Wow! This is all soooo mind-blowing! The first time in our lifetime that we are all witnesses to a pandemic, sweeping across continents. It has changed life as we know it and now it’s right here in our backyards and it has put a monkey wrench into the Penn Relays.
Michael Coard 2018 Archives
- Coard: Put Some 'Respek' on Black Women's Names
- Coard: Demand Change With Outlandish Judge
- Coard: Renaming a street after W. Wilson Goode is a bad idea
- Coard: Negro, please! Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
- Coard: 187th anniversary of Nat Turner's rebellion
- Coard: Philly's ties to birth of slavery 399 years ago
- Coard: Criminal Law Procedure 101- Nat Turner School of Law
- Coard: Ten things to know about the Michael White case
- Coard: Racist, sexist, fascist Trump also a traitor
- Coard: “Operation Wetback”: America's Worst Mass Deportation
- Coard: Last slave ship docked 158 years ago
- Coard: My rebuttal to council’s rebuttal
- Coard: Kidnapping kids is so very American
- Coard: Is Council pimped out to racist labor unions?
- Coard: Will Abolition Hall and area be abolished?
- Coard: New law to predict future Black criminality
- Coard: Does NFL Mean “Negroes For Lease?”
- Coard: Philly's Jim Crow: Unions Still Laboring For Racism
- Michael Coard: Vote or Die: May Primary Endorsements
- Coard: Happy 50th Birthday to The Last Poets
- Coard: Cosby probably wishes ”Shaniqua” was on jury
- Coard: Black Coffee + Black People = Black Power
- Coard: Happy 87th birthday to the late Hardy Williams
- Coard: King Leopold: Twice the monster Hitler was
- Coard: Happy 69th Birthday, Brother Gil Scott-Heron
- Coard: Temple's proposed stadium - Black friend or white foe?
- Coard: Ota Benga, an African, caged in American Zoos
- Coard: America's 12 Slaveholding Presidents
- Coard: President Thomas Jefferson: A Pedophile Rapist
- Coard: George Washington's teeth not from wood but slaves
- Coard: America, NRA, and Congress guilty in mass shootings
- 40th Anniversary of Cheyney's Basketball Championship
- Black history: We did it ... they hid it
- Coard: Black History 'Month' must be daily, not yearly
- Coard: Happy birthday to the greatest pro-Black revolutionary bibliophile
- Coard: Happy birthday to America's greatest white lawyer
- Coard: We got Krasner in and we got his back
- Coard: Four things you didn't know about Watch Night
- Coard: Looking for a Black b---h on the judicial bench
- Coard: Pa. proposes to 'predict' Black criminality
- Coard: Black, white Philly sistahs help abolish slavery
- Coard: CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill for seeking Palestinian justice
- Coard: Cheyney keeps accreditation again
- Coard: Know Thanksgiving instead of celebrating it
- Coard: Non-voting Blacks get no thanks, deserve no benefits
- Coard: Vote Democrat or Die- Election Endorsements
- Standing on the Shoulders: The Black Philadelphia Lawyer
- Coard: Tuskegee syphilis study’s Black ‘guinea pigs’
- Coard: Non-voting Blacks commit suicidal lynchings
- Coard: Celebrate Charles Bowser's 88th Birthday!
Moss: When faith threatens public health
Candida Moss