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Save the Joel name
The city’s move to unload the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Bowman Gray Stadium makes good financial sense. The venues aren’t cash cows, and long gone are the days when local municipalities had
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Gay Rights Advocates Increasing
You can call it the “bandwagon effect,” or “political opportunism” or, the “wake-up-call effect,” or, less cynically, an old American tradition. Whatever you call it, in the last month it seems everybody and their
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Give Winston Lake Y members R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Curt Hazelbaker, the CEO of the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina, vowed that the Winston Lake Family Y would have a new executive director to fill the shoes of former ED Shawan Gabriel by
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Trayvon Martin: One Year Later
One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings – and some people are still throwing salt on the open wound. Recently, George Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman, posted a tweet comparing Trayvon Martin to
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Column: Can We All Just Get Along?
I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal matters, it seems that Brother King had a point. Can we all just, maybe,
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Race and the Legacy of Chavez
In January 2004, as the president of TransAfrica Forum, I had the honor of leading the first African American delegation to meet with the leaders of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. It was important for us
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Moral out of convenience
As a result of Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman’s declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am once again compelled to ask: Why are Christians and conservatives constantly apologizing for what
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More youth priced out of college
Morehouse College, one of the most distinguished historically black colleges — with graduates like Dr. Martin Luther King, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, film director Spike Lee and others — literally shut down for
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Change at the Vatican
Were we the only ones expecting someone black or brown to walk out last week after white smoke went up over the Vatican? Sure, the election of Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a big
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Editorial: Criticism of President still taboo
WS Chronicle March 28, 2013 0The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been called a pastor’s pastor, a preaching master who’s like the opposite of March: comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion. But not even his
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