HeyJaredBen Jealous
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They fled the state to tie the knot. Sixty years later, my parents' love remains strong. (opens the original)
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This month my parents are beginning their seventh decade of marriage despite a law that tried to stop them. Sixty years ago they were married in a church in Washington, D.C. They had to leave Maryland to do it. My mother is Black. My father is white. In Maryland their marriage was a crime. They met in West Baltimore. Her city. Two student teachers at Harlem Park Junior High, the same classroom, one semester after the other. They wrote each other every week that spring. Their students. Life back
Stand by Second Amendment but don't deny damage guns can cause (opens the original)
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When I was a boy two brothers lived on our block and we ran together every weekend. Ball in the street, made-up games, War! Then one day they were gone. My buddy said their father had lost his job at the tire factory and taken his own life in the basement with a gun the family owned. That was a gun death in America. Quiet street, good schools. In all my years arguing guns, a death like that almost never came up. Our children are back in school, and September is Suicide Prevention Month. Guns, ch
Working-class men need to come together as they did back in 1879 (opens the original)
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I understood the depth of it first at a friend’s 21st birthday party in college. Somebody raised a glass to celebrate him. Then another raised his, and before it reached his shoulder, tipped it. He poured libations for the ones who did not make it. Those shot or sent away before the rest of us got to college. In a room of nothing but young Black and Latino men, we all joined in. A Latino friend from childhood, hiding from his own gang the last time I saw him. My best friend, Black, locked up for
Slander against Black fathers is as old as our country (opens the original)
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Last week I had lunch with an old friend. He is a Black Republican and a popular commentator, which means we have spent 20 years disagreeing in public and liking each other in private. He would be welcome in any barbershop in America. He keeps it real in the way men in any true community require of one another. We talked about our kids. That was most of the lunch. Nothing about that would surprise any Black man reading this. Nothing about it would surprise most Black people. But every Black fath
As MLK noted, if a country stops counting its unemployed, it forgets them (opens the original)
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Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8%. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. The national unemployment rate was 3.6%, near the lowest since the Korean War. Washington D.C. called that full employment. King was telling them the number was h
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