So, you are sitting on a park bench, just enjoying the weather. What is the likelihood that the next person that walks by you is of a different race than you? In 2010 the probability of another race person walking by was 54.9%, and it rose to 61.1% by 2020. We are more likely to see people w…
When COVID-19 hit Philadelphia in March 2020, I, like everyone else, never imagined that we would still be dealing with it a year and a half l…
“To America’s children, families, and educators, the last two school years have not gone the way you planned. You’ve missed chances to connect…
The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier, as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting d…
I congratulate New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Eric Adams. He will be a strong new mayor of our nation’s largest and most diverse …
Starting Sept. 1, someone seeking an abortion in Texas found themselves in a dystopia worthy of "Brave New World."
Texas’s newly imposed anti-abortion law combines the viciousness of flat-out abortion bans and the MAGA crowd’s penchant for bullying and harassment.
“Until George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, sparking protests against racist police violence around the world, much of the…
Watching the last American military plane go wheels up and out of the Afghanistan War reminded me of an old saying: History often repeats itse…
As drought continues to punish food producers throughout the American West, Hurricane Ida has reminded us that the very opposite problem — rag…
Allies of former President Donald Trump are planning a rally Saturday in support of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
As he toured neighborhoods flooded by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, President Joe Biden declared climate change has become “everybody’s crisi… Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Texas law banning most abortions in that state to go forward. Read more
Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is right to urge fellow Republicans not to nominate former President Donald Trump should he announce a bid to … Read more
Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers continue their efforts to cast doubt on the 2020 election and make voting in the state more difficult. Read more
Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Tuesday that masks mandates will be required in all Pennsylvania public and private schools, as well as child care … Read more
After more than 18 months of remote or hybrid learning, about 120,000 students and 20,000 faculty and staff are being welcomed back into the P… Read more
Although shootings are still well above pre-pandemic levels, gun violence is receding in New York, compared with last summer, according to rec… Read more
I’m sure some readers will be alarmed by my use of the word “avenge” in regard to the Sept. 15, 1963, savage murder of four little Black girls. Those readers believe I’m calling for the same thing to be done to four little white girls in retaliation.
This is Vol. 5 of my monthly column entitled Black Dollars Matter. Read more
Most people would be shocked to know that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a license to carry one of the several guns that he kept … Read more
Based on the smugly complacent news release it issued Aug. 25, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology thinks it… Read more
Before I begin this article in my weekly Freedom’s Journal column, I want you to look at the photograph above. Correction — I need you to look… Read more
Almost 207 years ago on Aug. 19, 1814, Mary Ellen “Mammy” Pleasant — a real estate mogul, entrepreneur and abolitionist — was born enslaved. Read more
The Philadelphia-based Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, founded and led by the preeminent, award-winning Dr. Ala Stanford — who is double-bo… Read more
This is volume four of my monthly column entitled Black Dollars Matter. Read more
Last week, I found myself physically back in my childhood neighborhood, having an experience that I had not had in many years. In recent years… Read more
Many of you have experienced the annoying feeling of being in the process of preparing a meal only to discover that a needed ingredient is now… Read more
It was two weeks ago, August 12 to be exact, when the temperature was unbearable. Read more
Most of us remember our first job for it is usually embedded in our consciousness. It may have been your very first job; or perhaps your first… Read more
Jackie Summers keeps a photo of a bottle of Sorel, the liquor brand he founded in 2012, on his phone. In the image, it sits beside bottles of … Read more
Your bedroom light does not work; the faucet in your bathroom leaks; the lock on your front door does not catch; a crack in a wall needs patch… Read more
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should levy a hefty fine against the Philadelphia Eagles for their disgraceful performance in the season finale…
The Frog is angry.
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…
After over a year’s worth of weekly columns, centered around the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on all of us, this is the last one on the subject. Instead, I decided to devote this column to what we should have learned from the past year of being in the throes of the pandemic. …
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