Category: Nonfiction
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Solidarity
Martin Luther King, Jr., Black American, delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. The Civil Rights…
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Can Mittelpolitan Cities Ever be Strong?
As I’ve written before, Charles Marohn’s Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity is a wonderful book. It builds, through its…
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Virginity
“Are you a virgin?” The two boys leer at me. Their silly grins hide something that, to me, is inscrutable.…
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A Love Poem to Money
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination,” said Oscar Wilde. And while, yes, I have…
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A School Board Meeting Challenges Faith
Recently I covered what has been by far the most difficult events of my young journalism career: a school board…
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Free Pools for Baltimore Youth? Why Not?
I want to state up front that the basis for this idea is NOT originally mine, so I’ll explain where it…
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A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education
While death and taxes may have earned their spot at the top, there may be room for an addition to…
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Groin Pains: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Vasectomy
As I approach 40, I realize that I have only two significant things to recommend me as a human being.…
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The Mobbing of John R. Shillady
THE following account of the mobbing of John R. Shillady, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…