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History

David Reel: Senator Everett Dirksen, a largely forgotten civil rights champion

June 27, 2024June 26, 2024
David Reel
1

Dirksen’s efforts ion the Senate made the proposed Civil Rights Act of 1964 a bipartisan success.
By David Reel

History

Tim Hartman: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023
Tim Hartman

Cartoonist Tim Hartman recalls the legacy and message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Culture History

Stu Bykofsky: Why I reject ‘systemic racism’

December 2, 2020April 19, 2021
Stu Bykofsky
1

The moment of my real race awakening came in 1955 with the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi for supposedly flirting with a white woman.
By Stu Bykofsky

Civic Culture

Logan Chipkin: Bob Woodson’s last march

October 7, 2020July 28, 2021
Logan Chipkin
2

The Civil Rights icon (and Philly native) has gone from marching with Martin Luther King, Jr, to integrate West Chester, to spending a life working on our nation’s most complex issues of poverty and race. Now, at 83, he plans to save America.
By Logan Chipkin

Politics

Matthew Brooks: NAACP fails to stand against anti-Semitism in Philly

July 31, 2020April 19, 2021
Matthew Brooks

Delaware Valley NAACP president Rodney Muhammad has come under fire for posting a profoundly anti-Semitic meme on social media. The […]

Civic Culture

John McWhorter: We cannot allow ‘1619’ to dumb down America in the name of a crusade

May 24, 2020June 30, 2021
John McWhorter
7

The fundamental claim promoted by the New York Times’ 1619 Project — that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery — simply does not correspond with the facts. This false history will do more damage than its proponents realize.
By John McWhorter

Civic Culture

Logan Chipkin: Philadelphia Urban League leads the way in an era of big government

March 15, 2020April 19, 2021
Logan Chipkin

As free market advocates, it is incumbent upon us to answer the skeptic who thinks that poor people will starve in the streets absent the State. The Urban League of Philadelphia is one such answer, right in our own backyard.

Culture

Tigre Hill: Dr. King and Cecil Moore, very different men united in common cause

January 20, 2020April 19, 2021
Tigre Hill
2

One was a hard-charging Marine, the other a practitioner of nonviolent resistance. Segregation at Girard College didn’t stand a chance.
By Tigre Hill

Culture

Kevin Ferris: Dr. King’s rightful place in the history of Philly and the nation

January 20, 2020April 19, 2021
Intern B+L
2

Perhaps the civil rights leader’s most significant visit to Philadelphia was in 1959, when he posed for a Liberty Bell photo during a tour of Independence Hall.
By Kevin Ferris

Op-Ed

Harper + Lamb: The four-letter word missing from the One Big Beautiful Bill: JOBS

Harper + Lamb: The four-letter word missing from the One Big Beautiful Bill: JOBS

schedule June 19 2025
ink_pen Kate Harper and Conor Lamb

In the hazy fog of hyper-partisan Washington, it’s easy to miss what is directly in front of you. That has […]

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