“The whole race question seems to have reached a sort of impasse, a blind alley, of which no one could see the outlet. The black has become a target at which anyone might try a shot.”
Opinion
Republican state lawmakers should stop their fight to end Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic shutdown order.
John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia police union, is reportedly considering the idea of a state law enforcement licensing board being …
Today, Americans are facing unprecedented times. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, our country has fallen into an economic recession, …
Change is hitting that athletic conglomerate known as the NCAA like a kick in the pants. Earlier this year, the NCAA Board of Governors voted …
A year ago Sunday, Philadelphia lost a legend with the passing of former Overbrook High, Drake University and National Basketball Association …
The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
In the wake of global protests over the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died brutally in the custody of Minneapolis police, Ghana’s M…
News that Quaker Oats is dropping the image of Aunt Jemima from its syrup and pancake mix packaging has special meaning to me. I collect souve…
Amid the struggle to survive this pandemic, Caribbean Americans have their minds and their hearts in two places: They are worried about the pa…
Michael Coard
I am proud to say that on July 5 during the “Race and Racism in the Courtroom” segment of my weekly Radio Courtroom show on WURD96.1 FM, I broke and scooped a big story concerning Philly’s judicial system. And on July 9, a local newspaper did a meticulously thorough job reporting on the same issue.
Black lives didn’t matter to the British colonies that existed on this stolen land when, beginning August 25, 1619, whites formally initiated … Read more
To “defang” means to render less dangerous. To “deride” means to subject to contemptuous criticism. Accordingly, Philly’s brutally and deadly … Read more
At 10 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, it will be exactly 165 years ago to the very day and the very minute that 19-year-old Celia in 1855 displayed … Read more
Normally, when you think about someone getting fired, it pertains to an employee losing his or her job. But this article ain’t about that. Ins… Read more
If you’re shocked that Blacks (along with our Red brothers and sisters) are at the bottom of every health, criminal “justice,” and especially … Read more
A traitor is someone who commits treason, which is defined in Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution as follows: “Treason... shall co… Read more
Ahmaud Arbery, Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, Sean Bell, Kayla Moore, Tamir Rice, Albe… 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
I had every intention of staying away from referencing the coronavirus in today’s column. This virus was referenced in each of my columns over… Read more
Here we go again. For the past seven weeks, my columns have been influenced by the coronavirus pandemic. Based on reports from scientists and … Read more
Today is Mother’s Day. For many of us, however, today will not seem like Mother’s Day. The things that many of us did in the past on Mother’s … Read more
Last Saturday’s weather was outstanding. When I telephoned one of my good friends, his wife answered and told me that she had just returned fr… Read more
In a recent column, I speculated that we would see an increase in the birth rate since many couples were hunkered down due to stay-at-home man… Read more
Any discussion regarding defecating is uncomfortable. Whenever I initiate a discussion of this essential function, it is usually met with this… Read more
Daryl Bell
DeSean Jackson was wrong.
A year ago Sunday, Philadelphia lost a legend with the passing of former Overbrook High, Drake University and National Basketball Association … Read more
Black college athletics is changing rapidly and dramatically. Read more
Bubba Wallace won’t be the only Black racing pioneer at Pocono Raceway this weekend. While Wallace will be driving car No. 43 made famous by t… Read more
Somewhere, Colin Kaepernick is smiling. As quiet as it’s kept, and with this being Father’s Day, it’s only right to pay homage to the father o… Read more
That drop of water that fell softly to the ground wasn’t precipitation, it was a tear. It was a sign that something went terribly wrong in the… Read more
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz gets it. So does his teammate and Pro Bowl tight end Zach Ertz along with his wife, soccer star J… Read more
Glenn Ellis
In 2016, a study was published in the medical journal Pediatrics, which found that Black kids 5 to 12 years old were two times more likely to die by suicide compared to white youth in the same age group.
Caribbean Currents
Amid the struggle to survive this pandemic, Caribbean Americans have their minds and their hearts in two places: They are worried about the pandemic in the United States and they are worried about parents, siblings and children still living in the islands.
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!
Blow: Let's drop euphemisms and deal with racial realities
Charles M. Blow