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‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies Deny Children Rights

By Marian Wright Edelman Many schoolchildren in America are on summer break right now, but here’s a pop quiz about discipline policies in our nation’s schools that’s just for grownups: Would you suspend a student from sc...
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Philadelphia: Pressure Builds as New School Budget Cuts Loom

By Wilford Shamlin III for the Philadelphia Tribune With a second round of layoffs looming for Philadelphia public schools, parents, students and other supporters will intensify pressure on City Council and state lawmakers to h...
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Protesters Descend on School Headquarters in Philadelphia

By  Wilford Shamlin III of the Philadelphia Tribune Students would feel less safe in Philadelphia’s public schools without student safety aides that are among school district employees whose positions are threatened by bud...
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Right-Wing Reflex: Blame Obama First

By Clarence Page of the Philadelphia Tribune Republicans are not alone in their outrage that the IRS singled out tea party groups for extra scrutiny on their applications for nonprofit status. Nobody likes to be profiled. The I...
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Culture
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Philadelphia: The Roots Live large in New South Street Mural

Philadelphia Tribune: Members of the house band for NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in New York returned to their roots in Philadelphia on Friday for the dedication of a multistory mural in their honor. T...
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Voters Correct to be Wary of Syria Intervention

By the Philadelphia Tribune mericans are right to be wary about the United States getting more involved in Syria. A new Fox News poll released days before Memorial Day, a day of remembering the men and women who died in militar...
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On Press Freedoms, Obama Races Nixon to Bottom

By Clarence Page for the Philadelphia Tribune Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama’s recent scandal-quakes don’t appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon’s...
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Michelle Obama, Mel Watt, Kevin Johnson: Black Empowerment Arrives ‘At Last’?

By Julianne Malveaux When Beyoncé Knowles sang the Etta James song “At Last” at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings. At last we have an African-American president? At las...
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Cautious Celebration for Black Voter Turnout

Philadelphia Tribune Editorial Blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, helping to lift President Barack Obama to re-election victory, according to new data from the Census Bureau.The turnout rate of African American v...
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Black Revolutionary Assata Shakur is No Terrorist

By Bill Fletcher, Jr When the FBI announced that they were placing fugitive Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard) on the list of most wanted terrorists and that they were offering an additional $1 million for her capture, it caught ...
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Obama’s Charm Not Working on Hostile Congress

By Clarence Page for the Philadelphia Tribune Was President Obama really joking at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues? It’s fas...
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Rich Get Richer, Blacks Get Stymied by Fiscal Policy

By Charlene Crowell of the Philadelphia Tribune According to a new research report, America’s racial wealth gaps will persist until public policy reforms provide every family the opportunity to build wealth. Less than Equal:...
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The Mythical Black Economy

By Jim Clingman of the Philadelphia Tribune Although the dictionary calls it archaic, the “management of a household” is one of the definitions listed for the word “economy.” Another definition is “a saving or attempt...
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Obtaining GED Becoming More Challenging

By Damon C. Williams for the Philadelphia Tribune According to the Center for Literacy, there’s no better time to attain a General Educational Development test certificate – or GED – than the present, because starting on ...
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The Column by Rev. Kevin Johnson That Kicked Off the Morehouse Controversy

By Rev. Kevin Johnson of the Philadelphia Tribune This piece was published on April 14 As President Barack Obama begins his second term, there is something noticeably different about his new cabinet – the absence of Afric...
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