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The Bible teaches us that in an ideal world, "mercy and truth meet, justice and peace are embraced." Instead, Texas has become the barometer of a world where justice spits on mercy. We can and must do better.Rosemary C. McDonoughNarberth,…

The United States is home to around one million Haitians, with the largest numbers concentrated in Miami, Boston and New York. But Haitian communities have flourished in Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina and California.This week, the United…

In this age of racial reckoning, it is not only fitting but meaningful that the stories of the NFL pioneers be told. Keyshawn Johnson, the first pick in the 1996 New York Jets draft and now host of ESPN's morning show "Keyshawn,…

SAN LEANDRO, Calif .-- California is bathed in its foresight. "The future comes here first," Gov. Gavin Newsom said, calling his state "America's coming attraction."However, in categorically rejecting efforts to recall him from office, Mr…

Meredith Stabel, PhD candidate in English and editor-in-chief of the UI Press, answers questions about her first published book, Radicals: Audacious Writings by American Women, an anthology of long-lost writings by women of the 19th…

NEW YORK (AP / WJZ) - U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland is working on a brief in which he will reflect on the siege of the Capitol on January 6 and the tragedy he suffered a week earlier when his 25-year-old son Tommy…

Craig Johnson and his new book Daughter of Morning Star (Courtesy Craig Johnson) CASPER, Wyo. - Are you a fan of the famous Wyoming author Craig johnson? He writes the Longmire series which is also a hit show on Netflix.…

We've lost. We have some idea, like many of you, of how the families of these brave heroes feel today. You feel like you're being sucked into a black hole in the middle of your chest. There is no way out. My heart aches for you, and I…

Historic Georgia Ground is where we meet "Love Songs" hero Ailey Pearl Garfield. As a young black woman in the late 20th century, Ailey feels this sense of double consciousness, not only as Du Bois imagined when it comes to race, but also…

The minister mainly, by John Oliver Killens (Amistad). Unpublished for more than thirty years after the death of its author in 1987, this insane novel takes place in the imaginary African nation of Guanaya, where the discovery of mineral…