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Julia’s, Ollie’s Trolley, Over-the-Rhine…
I covered my first NAACP convention 11 years ago in Pittsburgh. Next week will mark my second, again in the city where I live (now Cincinnati). A lot has changed; then I was an intern at the New Pittsburgh Courier, my hometown black paper. Today, I’m a bona fide journalist with a serious body of…
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Finding Fathers
The lunch was supposed to be about politics. I had just moved to town and sitting across from me was a 50-something former Cincinnati city councilman and preacher who was helping to run down the lay of the land. Earlier, when he showed me his church’s new recreation room, I lamented that I wished I…
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Don't Think Black Voters Won't Vote for McCain
So my home state of Pennsylvania handed Hillary Clinton a win and a reason to keep fighting to be the Democratic nominee. As I write, Terry McCauliffe is probably on CNN pleading his candidate’s case, facts about her low delegate and popular vote counts be damned. But before Democratic superdelegates get too itchy to snuff…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
