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Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley, the author of "Roots," would have turned 100 on Aug. 11. Former Sen. Lamar Alexander reflects on their friendship.

Liberal media largely ignores 'Uncle Tim' slurs against Tim Scott after his Biden response WaPo quotes slur-using activist who accused Scott of giving cover to white supremacists The very first three paragraphs (underneath a photo of  The View’s far-left Joy Behar) read this way:  “Liberal media outlets almost completely ignored the "Uncle Tim" slurs that trended on social media against Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., after his rebuttal Wednesday to President Biden's address to Congress. Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, infuriated progressives with his speech, which includ...

Liberal media largely ignores 'Uncle Tim' slurs against Tim Scott after his Biden response WaPo quotes slur-using activist who accused Scott of giving cover to white supremacists The very first three paragraphs (underneath a photo of  The View’s far-left Joy Behar) read this way:  “Liberal media outlets almost completely ignored the "Uncle Tim" slurs that trended on social media against Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., after his rebuttal Wednesday to President Biden's address to Congress. Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, infuriated progressives with his speech, which includ...

February 26, 2021 Black History Month should be a great celebration for all Americans, not just those of us who are black. Unfortunately, the pride I felt about it as a child in the late 1970s has almost dissipated. That’s because instead of honoring those who truly made black history into American history, corporate media, corporations and the politically left have appropriated this tradition into a vehicle for virtual signaling. President Gerald Ford decreed Black History Month a national observance in 1976, a year that marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first iteration of Black Histo...

Joseph Green-Bishop | 12/18/2020, 6 a.m. Reverend Mamie Alethia Williams Courtesy Photo The Reverend Mamie Alethia Williams was an angelic servant of God who during nearly a half century of ministry profoundly and selflessly improved the lives of people throughout the world. A powerful orator and effective church and civic leader, Reverend Williams, who passed recently in her Baltimore County home, performed a major role in progressive social change movements in the United States, Africa, Europe and in the Caribbean. A graduate of Claflin University in her native South Carol...