Terry Manning
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Why don’t we talk about white-on-white crime?
Black-on-Black violence is a regular concern in letters I receive from some readers. To these writers, Blacks all but invite police brutality. Excessive force…
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2021 a tough one for lovers of old-school hip-hop
Black people sometimes discuss entertainers who matter to us in terms of whether they matter to people outside the community: “Is this person famous…
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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Truth?
When Andrew Smith said, “People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer,” he was laying out the blueprint for the…
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Everybody wants a taste of the Carolinas
To be a small state, and not heavily populated, South Carolina’s influence stretches farther than I ever expected when I moved away from my…
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America or ‘America’ – It’s time to decide
When the Senate voted last week to recognize June 19 as a federal holiday, the reaction among many of my friends and me was,…