Remember when everybody was so eager to see 2020 come to a close? “It’s been the worst,” people said. To which 2021
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My father had been on my mind. He passed the year before after a two-decade struggle with cancer, and his birthday was
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The National Retail Federation estimates shoppers will spend an average of $998 on gifts this holiday season. So of course, it makes
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A friend recently mentioned the influential poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, an occasion that gave me the opportunity to revisit some of
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If you think too long and too hard, you can find yourself succumbing to the dreariness of the news cycle. It seems
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The success of the recent Netflix movie “The Harder They Fall” leaves me with mixed feelings. The movie, which features an all-Black
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