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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Mass Shooting of Children in Texas Brings More Grief and Excuses from So-Called Leaders

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

In the wake of recent mass shootings in Buffalo and now in Texas, I wish I could believe that we’ll see real legislation proposed and approved to close the loopholes used by eager gun shoppers. But I doubt it will happen. 

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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Call Us Seniors, Seasoned or Just Plain Old But Experience Still Makes the Difference

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
Kevin McNeir and his mother, Edna McNeir Baker
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Songs I Sing When I Miss My Mom

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor May 4, 2022May 7, 2022
Lawrence Boyd Sr, 76, a Vietnam War veteran who served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, traveled from his home in Puyallup, Washington, on April 24 to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where he paid tribute to one of his fallen comrades, PFC Watson, killed in the line of duty in 1968. (Courtesy of 5WPR.com)
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: A Chance Encounter and Interview with a Black Vietnam Veteran and How His Words Blew My Mind

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: I’ve Stopped Trying to ‘Convince’ God – And It Feels Good!

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor April 6, 2022April 6, 2022
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Sometimes, ‘Uncomfortable Conversations’ Are the Best Ways to Deal with Injustice

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor February 16, 2022May 4, 2022
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and made over 70 documented rescues from Maryland, including her family. She became an abolitionist, civil war spy and suffragist. This mural called the Wall of Tubman depicts stages of her life as a slave to a free woman. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Black History — An Epic Saga Whose Truth Remains Untold 

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
A roll of police tape (police line) lies on the ground outside a home being foreclosed on in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009.
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: My Neighbor Murders His Wife Because of Finances, Reminding Me to Cherish Every Day and Life

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor January 19, 2022January 19, 2022
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: How Should We Respond to the Prediction that ‘Everyone Will Eventually Get COVID-19?’

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor January 12, 2022January 13, 2022
Max Julien (center) and Richard Pryor (right) star in 1973's “The Mack." (Courtesy of American International Pictures)
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Blaxploitation Film Star Max Julien Displayed the Complexities of the Black Male in ‘The Mack’

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

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