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The Conversation: How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from history

THE CONVERSATION — Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, part of a nationwide, community-based initiative to “plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.” He is also an author of […]

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Commentary: How Planned Parenthood has helped millions of women, including me

Planned Parenthood has allowed generations of low-income women to survive childbirth, to combat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and to plan their pregnancies. However, the fact that women live healthier and longer lives is not Planned Parenthood’s ultimate superpower. No, that is reserved for the legions of low-income women, including me, who now have been given […]

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Letter: We let Trump, Putin happen

As David Treadwell said in his commentary on March 25 (“As Putin goes, so goes Trump,”), “bad things happen when a megalomaniac takes control of a country.” Rightly so, the two megalomaniacs he chose to spotlight were Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, both woven from the same nihilistic cloth. The sad reality is that these […]

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Michael Reagan: Boo hoo for Hollywood

What happened at the Academy Awards show really saddened me. After all, I’m a child of Hollywood as much as I am a child of politics. My mother Jane Wyman was a major player in Hollywood – best actress Oscar, two stars on the Walk of Fame, handprints in the cement in front of Grauman’s […]

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Commentary: Afghan evacuees lack a clear path for resettlement in the U.S., 7 months after Taliban takeover

Russia’s war against Ukraine has resulted in more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country. The United States said on March 24, 2022, that it would welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. The Ukrainian refugee situation continues to overshadow another refugee crisis. That crisis stems from the U.S. military’s official withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. […]