They thought it would be easier to come back now that the devil was dead. And even though they cheered and applauded, and went to Ground Zero yesterday to personally thank the president of the United States for...
May 06, 2011 12:00 AMCharles Rangel was walk ing along 125th Street, past the drugstores and shopping centers some said would never be, when a woman stopped him, crying uncontrollably over the death of Percy Sutton. "Did you know Percy...
January 07, 2010 12:00 AMLET'S be clear about a few things. When anxious white cops kill their black colleagues in the line of duty without ever losing so much as a day's pay, that is a serious racial problem. When a black man is...
August 23, 2009 3:52 AMWEEKS before the final curtain fell on Michael Jackson's remarkable life, I noticed a startling similarity among some of my favorite artists that went far beyond the musical genre. As I scrolled through my iPod...
June 28, 2009 3:37 AMFOR husband and father Omar Edwards, life must have been looking pretty good as his day came to an end. He had survived another shift - not always a given for a cop in New York. He had gotten off early, which meant...
May 31, 2009 1:21 PMALONG with making history 100 years ago as the first black heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson made enemies as the nation's first black pop-culture icon. At a time when blacks made the newspapers only as perpetrators...
April 02, 2009 3:10 AMWASHINGTON - Life is good. I saw a glistening sun over a city filled with promise in a nation bursting with pride. And even though the January air slapped my face and numbed my fingers and made my feet ache where...
January 21, 2009 3:51 AMWASHINGTON - On the bank of a shal low basin, in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, lies a sloping plot of land where hope springs eternal. Here, ambition endures. Here, the pride takes shape. Just a few...
January 19, 2009 1:33 AMABOARD THE OBAMA EXPRESS - Ashar Kennedy could hardly put his thoughts into words as he scooped ice for a passenger as the train rumbled out of Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. The Amtrak employee was running...
January 18, 2009 2:52 AMWHEN the roar rose up over Harlem Tues day night at the news of Barack Obama's monumental victory, I immediately thought of my mother - who didn't live long enough to see this wonderful day. I remembered the...
November 06, 2008 4:52 AMTHE last time he pressed his lips together to play that special song, Paul Hawthorne was a trombone player in a US Army band. His uniform was pressed. His shoes had a high gloss. His instrument was shining...
November 05, 2008 5:43 AMLET the record show that a profound change swept over America on the 28th day of the eighth month of an astounding year in this country's history. It was at that moment, with cheers rising beyond the Rocky...
August 29, 2008 4:06 AMDENVER - We always knew it was a possibility from the day he announced he was chasing history and threw his hat into the ring. What black man ever led a movement without the threat of death? Some days, it's hard...
August 27, 2008 5:54 AMBarack Obama saw it coming. When the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee got a question on what he thought about Wednesday's US Supreme Court decision outlawing executions of people convicted of raping...
June 27, 2008 4:27 AMOUR chests swell with pride each time Barack Obama speaks of hope. He could be president, we tell ourselves - the change Sam Cooke sang can soon be real. Then there's a reality check, and it smacks us in the face....
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