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“This event will advance our national strategy to address the community violence problem” — Michael Weeks, Minister of National Security Ending violence and preventing future harm requires teamwork combined with a framework that lays out, in pl...

“Oft as we can we’ll come back again Here oft you will find us For the Green and the Gold we’ll ever uphold” Approximately 125 years ago, on Court Street at a building by the name of Samaritan’s Lodge, 12 children walked through the do...

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom” — Oprah Winfrey Much has been said about the Government’s plans to reform education in our high schools. However, little, if anything, has been done. For several years, the ...

If there is one thing we ought to know, but find we know very little of, it is the Progressive Labour Party’s delegates conference. For most, it is a mysterious “other event” held by the PLP each year. We dance around the fact that parties are not le...

When Anthony Fauci speaks, his voice has a hint of a rasp, a lot of Brooklyn swagger and a reassuring glimmer of optimism. That combination has meant that throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as the renowned infectious-disease expert has offered info...

I do my PhD research in a shared office on campus and I very seldom see another face. And this is not good because the central task of an academic department is fostering a good research culture and stimulating interdisciplinary conversations. The ot...

The history of warfare has no precedent for what is happening right now in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Never before has a nuclear power plant been on the front line of a major war, and indeed a main object of the warring parties’ strategies. How Russia, U...

“Would that the philosophers were the kings of the earth, or that the kings of the earth were driven by the spirit of a philosopher. When baser things that cause men to rival against one another are caused to be put aside, then and only then will we ...

After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s performance in covering threats to democracy. That certainly was a fair question, since i...

When some of Washington’s leading Black intellectuals gathered near the AME Metropolitan Church in the spring of 1896, they were not in the mood to pull punches. Frankly, they had had enough. And so the members of the Bethel Literary and Historical A...