by Starlette Thomas | Sep 18, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
A.J. Laguerre, 19, Jerald Gallion, 29, and Angela Michelle Carr, 52, were shot and killed on a Saturday afternoon at a Dollar General store in New Town, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter was “free, white and...
by David Wilkerson | Feb 27, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Public education has long been a petri dish through which many of society’s challenges, quirks, triumphs and conflicts have passed. Emerging, in fits and starts from the pandemic, U.S. children are confronting many of the same unique adjustments that their...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 26, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Police. Brutality. I have been thinking about these two words a lot lately. I first saw them in action in 1991 during the beating of Rodney King. Amadou Diallo was on my mind and on my college dormitory wall in 1999. It’s a strange pairing. I wish the two words didn’t...
by Jim Hopkins | Feb 15, 2021 | Opinion
Some white Christians speak a great deal about accountability, but then apply it very selectively. The response, or lack thereof, to the charges by the United States House of Representatives of “incitement of insurrection” against former President Trump on the part of...
by Monty Self | Oct 26, 2020 | Opinion
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Oct. 21 it had reached an $8 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been at the center of the nation’s opioid crisis for decades. The company pleaded guilty to paying doctors to...