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The assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr occurred eight years before I was born, but in Memphis, it has never quite seemed like the past. It is so deeply imprinted on the city’s collective psyche that it hovers somewhere above the pres...
DATE: Apr 07, 2018
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“Country roads, take me home, to the place where I belong”
— John Denver
As much as travelling is fun, exciting and sometimes adventurous, it has both a beginning and an end. At the end, one eventually travels back home to the place where you belong...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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Christopher Famous
Hi, Joe Wakefield. I missed the time frame to comment on your letter of March 29, 2018. You are a senior lawyer and a former teacher, and it should be below me or, better said, above my pay grade to comment on your comprehension.
Nowhere in my op-ed...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
Fifty years ago this week, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr gave one of the best-known, yet mostly unheard speeches in American history — his Mountaintop speech. He spoke for more than 40 minutes, but only his concluding lines, about looking off in...
DATE: Apr 04, 2018
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Led by Prime Minister Theresa May, the world has come to the unshakeable conclusion that Russia was behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, an émigré Russian GRU officer, and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. Skripal spied for the British, ...
DATE: Apr 03, 2018
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A little more than a month ago, a video clip was sent to me on WhatsApp. The clip is a segment from Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, episode No 203 released in 2014. It makes the rounds after every mass shooting that occurs in the United States. The c...
DATE: Apr 03, 2018
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From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it — so long as their salaries are tied to their performance.
It’s not that teachers in the United States are underpaid; the median i...
DATE: Apr 03, 2018
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During a visit to Ohio to promote his infrastructure plan on March 29, Donald Trump dropped one of the bombshells that Americans have become accustomed to over the past year and a half: “We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon ... let the other...
DATE: Apr 02, 2018
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The gap between the policies pursued by Donald Trump’s administration and what the President says when he is outside the range of a teleprompter continues to be disconcertingly wide. At a rally in Ohio last Thursday, Trump suddenly blurted that he mi...
DATE: Apr 02, 2018
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The conflagration set off by the Cambridge Analytica scandal has spread like a forest fire across continents. India’s politics has not been spared.
This week, India’s ruling BJP and the Congress party have been engaged in an unruly quarrel over the d...
DATE: Apr 02, 2018
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