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Old normal

For many of us, things have returned to a sense of normalcy since the onset of the pandemic in 2020.

Unbalanced

It needs to be said – the Republican nominee isn’t being treated fairly by the mainstream media. I think he might agree with that notion, but it’s becoming more and more difficult to predict what the 78-year-old convicted felon might …

Human cost of restricting abortion access, by David W. Marshall

During the crack epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s, children exposed to crack cocaine be- fore birth were often referred to as “crack babies.”

Dems embrace ‘positive masculinity’, by Clarence Page

In case you somehow haven’t noticed, manhood is on the ballot. Even before President Biden stepped aside to let Vice Presi- dent Kamala Harris step up to be the Democrats’ presiden- tial nominee, insiders from both parties were calling this …

Standing firm: Protecting reproductive rights in Richmond, by Harrison Roday

The race for mayor will be filled with critical discussions on many topics: our public schools, neighborhood safety, economic opportunity, the functioning of City Hall and transportation, to name a few. But those issues will be accompanied by some new …

Building memories and literacy with your grandchildren, by Kristen J. Amundson

It has been 40 years since I last read Dr. Seuss’ “The Foot Book” aloud, but I can still recite it, nearly word for word. That’s because I read it an estimated 83,492 times during my daughter’s earliest years.

John Lewis Act aims to reinvigorate Voting Rights Act, by Marc H. Morial

Last week in Chicago, the National Urban League joined with the Brennan Center and Democracy SENTRY for a conversation on voting rights.

Missing

Have you seen this bench?

School conditioning

Kudos to the Richmond Public Schools administration for securing a grant to address the problem of sending some of our children to schools that may be older than their grandparents. A large part of creating an environment conducive to instruction …

Debate duck

Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said recently that his former boss, the previous president, needs the support of a team of competent professionals, as he is susceptible to manipulation.

Missing

Have you seen this bench?

Dems’, energy, enthusiasm, exuberance, by Julianne Malveaux

The Democratic National Convention, held Aug. 19 through 22, was, among other things, an occasion of joy.

Walz ‘bringing the joy’ to election

Perhaps the most memorable moment of this year’s Democratic National Convention came the night before Kamala Harris officially accepted the party’s nomination for president.

Breaking the glass ceiling in November, by David W. Marshall

People can be pleasantly unpredictable at times, so our politics is equally unpredictable.

Democrats quietly removed abolishing death penalty from party platform, by Shane Claiborne

“We are not going back,” goes the Democrats’ passionate rebuttal to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign — which is about going back to the “golden days” of America, when white men held all the power and Black folks …

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