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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight Simon & Schuster October 2018 Frederick Douglass was the Martin Luther King Jr. of the 19th century. Former slave, author, orator, and statesman, Douglass was the principal black figure in the fight to abolish slavery. Over his long career, he became
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The fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission reignited controversy about America's greatness (or lack thereof). Putting human beings on the moon decades before the Internet was a singular achievement. One might think it obvious that such a monumental accomplishment is evidence that the United States has been
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Before I offer my recommendation for your summer reading list, please allow a digression to a scene several winters ago. It was another in an endless schedule of youth hockey games involving one of my older boys. As usual, a sibling or two sat in the bleachers, often reading.
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What would happen if public schools told their students don't have sex because it isn't good for you and you can't handle it? We may never know, because it's the road not travelled.
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School officials want to provide girls at Lowell High School other kinds of contraceptives in addition to the condoms they offer now. "In this day and age we need to do everything we can to support our students," Lowell School Committee member Connie Martin said during a subcommittee
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If King George III had banned fireworks in America, Thomas Jefferson would have mentioned it in the Declaration of Independence. Instead, our own Massachusetts Legislature banned them, back in 1943.
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Colin Kaepernick hates America. No shock there. It's at the heart of his kneeling during the national anthem back when he played professional football, allegedly to protest allegedly common cases of police officers killing black men they encounter on the job with allegedly no justifiable reason.
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When a Jesuit high school in Indianapolis refused to cut ties with one of its teachers – one who was in a same-sex marriage – the local archbishop announced that the school could no longer be called Catholic. It is a complicated subject, often misunderstood or falsely reported.
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