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Sep 2, 2010

Commentary

The Real Meaning of Education, Part 2

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…

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Guest Commentary

Empty Head, Loaded Gun!

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

Urban Violence in Buffalo, NY usually doesn’t make national news, but this time it did. I just got an out-of-town call from my cousin over a shooting while I was out of town myself. This had to do with the shooting outside an establishment known as the City Grille. At least 8 people were hit…

Urban Violence in Buffalo, NY usually doesn’t make national news, but this time it did. I just got an out-of-town call from my cousin over a…

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