How in the world do scores of seditious rioters simply waltz into the United States Capitol, so casually that many of them record their invasion on their phones and take selfies with cops? How do they scale the walls and push through the doors and scatter the police and not get forcibly stop…
Opinion
One of the many horrifying images from the Jan. 6 rampage on the U.S. Capitol shows a long-haired, long-bearded man wearing a black “Camp Ausc…
Donald Trump was right about one thing. Greatness still eludes us.
As the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach Donald Trump for a second time, some Republicans argued that such a move — a consti…
(CNN)President Donald J. Trump is an immoral force in the most powerful office in the world, and he must be stopped. Since falsely equating pe…
Those who took such actions Wednesday are far different from the thousands of the legitimate protesters in the nation’s capital to show their …
Last month, the U.S. introduced a pair of new vaccines that were developed using a novel scientific technique to stop the spread of a deadly v…
For thousands of years, at the beginning of each New Year, we all make promises to ourselves to be better, to improve and accomplish some goal…
The acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, confirmed last week that his office is investigating potential crimina…
Last Wednesday, a pro-Trump mob assaulted the Capitol, breaking through windows and doors, resulting in five deaths. They also interrupted the…
Irv Randolph
Tomorrow, Americans across the country will celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on the officially recognized federal holiday, Monday, Jan. 18.
The more that is learned about the siege on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the more it is evident that a thorough investigation is needed. Read more
The Trump administration is considering undoing some significant civil rights protections for minority groups. Read more
Jan. 6, 2021, is a day that will live in infamy. Read more
On Wednesday, a joint session of Congress is set to formally certify the Electoral College results, which would confirm President-elect Joe Bi… Read more
The city of Philadelphia has a homicide problem. There’s no way of masking the stench or forgetting about a dilemma that has become an epidemic. Read more
President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, last week. Bid… Read more
Every year America’s top universities such as Harvard and Stanford and major charities received hundreds of millions in donations. Read more
Michael Coard
January is the birth month of most of the so-called Black Greek-letter organizations, commonly known as the Divine Nine and officially known as the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
Immediately after a violent mob of white racist fascists — including Drumpf, thousands of MAGATs, several Republican Congresspersons, Senators… Read more
Watch Night — correctly known as Freedom’s Eve — is spiritual and cultural, not religious and congregational. Read more
As the painting by Marcello Corti, an honest white guy from Italy (which, by the way, has a Sicilian coastline only 96 miles from the African … Read more
Today’s article is part thirteen in my ongoing and periodic series entitled “Philly’s Jim Crow,” which started on Sept. 10, 2016 and focuses o… Read more
On Dec. 15, it will be exactly ten years ago that the grand opening of the first slavery memorial of its kind in the history of America took place. Read more
On Dec. 2, Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay of Missouri sponsored, along with Senate co-sponsors D… Read more
Donald Drumpf must be charged, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed. Read more
Alonzo Kittrels' Back in the Day
Several weeks ago, I had a discussion with a friend regarding his plans for New Year’s Eve. Given the restrictions placed on us by the pandemi… Read more
I find it difficult to believe that I have been writing this column since 2001; yes, 20 years. While the ride has been fun, it has also been c… Read more
Some of you may know that I love rhythm and blues records. Over the years, I have accumulated a large record collection. It is not unusual for… Read more
It is impossible to turn on television today and not see commercials suggesting intimacy of interracial couples. I want to go down this road i… Read more
With rare exceptions, I speak daily with a close friend that has been in my life since we were at Sulzberger Junior High School and is also a … Read more
This past Thursday was unlike any Thanksgiving that most of us have experienced. Hopefully, we shall not experience another like this one. Read more
Daryl Bell
I have a dream. It’s the kind of dream that will make many people in the Keystone State happy. It’s also the kind of dream that can start a ci…
Don’t blink but there’s something going on in Cleveland.
With the tenacity of a boxer, the mindset of a chess master, and the determination of a distance runner, Mark "Frog" Carfagno has developed a …
They've been decimated by injury. They've been beleaguered by poor play calling. They've been bemoaned by uninspired play.
Let’s stop drinking the spiked Kool-Aid and dreaming the impossible dream. The Philadelphia Eagles will not win Super Bowl LV at Raymond James…
Here it is week 3 of the 2020 National Football League season and its come down to this for the Philadelphia Eagles: beat the winless Cincinna…
Don’t let the green hair fool you. Jalen Mills, also known as The Green Goblin, is an alpha dog. He’s a leader on a mission to win.
Glenn Ellis
After almost the entire year of 2020 was spent dealing with the ravages of COVID-19, in some ways, sadly, the most difficult challenges are yet to come. This doesn’t mean that we no longer need to worry about becoming infected with the virus, and to stop following the safety precautions.
Pro-Trump protesters can be thieves, too