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When a brick was thrown through WT Hair salon’s window this past weekend the gratitude associated with the feeling of progress toward increased equali...

As family members, we were a part of the Friday night graduation ceremony for Allegany-Limestone High School’s Class of 2020. We thought that Chicago ...

As rumors of Kim Jong-un’s death circulated in April, some speculated that his sister and confidant, Kim Yo Jong, might soon succeed him as North Kore...

As citizens and officials across the U.S. consider whether and how to reform policing, they might look to Northern Ireland. Over the past 20 years, a ...

President Donald Trump billed his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the official public launch of his campaign for a second term. It should have been a gra...

The U.S. Army has a program called Soldier for Life. I am an American Soldier for life — enlisted for four years, an officer for more than 33 years, n...

Some people have recipes passed down through the generations, instructions from grandmothers and great-grandmothers who were good cooks. Not all of us...

“No, I don’t support defunding the police,” Joe Biden told CBS News recently, thereby keeping Democratic hopes for his presidential candidacy alive. H...

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Show,” a podcast hosted by Brown University professor Glenn Loury, academic and linguist John McWhorter asked the na...

During times of chaos and division, uncertainty and unrest, tension and suffering, we look to our leaders to help guide the ship. We look to our leade...

I think Lucy, my cat, is becoming annoyed with me. I’m a pretty good kitty mom, even though we do use the leash she grew up on in a busier community. ...

During times of chaos and division, uncertainty and unrest, tension and suffering, we look to our leaders to help guide the ship. We look to our leade...

I need to preface this column with a clear, straight-forward comment which should be obvious to everyone. There are violent looters, arsonists and thu...

“I can’t believe the death of one man caused all of these protests.” The murder of George Floyd is one of many of its kind. Over the past week, thousa...

Politicians all over the political spectrum are coming around to the commonsensical conclusion that, regardless of how unwarranted, scandalous and ill...

What can you do with a rolling pin? Does every household even still have one? These wooden cylindrical items with flexible handles were made to roll o...

The sociologist W Barrington Moore once asked why people do not revolt in the midst of the gravest injustices. Why do they conform to the abrogation o...

(TNS) Recent days sometimes seemed like a return to the 1960s, as a gleaming spacecraft carried American astronauts aloft while a series of protests r...