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Commentary

Affirmative action prevents true equality

12 September 2017 Varun Sivakumar

Students and employees should not be chosen on the basis of race.

Affirmative action is essential for equality

12 September 2017 Zari Tarazona

From admissions to in-college support, affirmative action makes a difference.

Student petitions to rename local street

05 September 2017 Amanda Lien

The street commemorates Chief Justice Roger Taney who authored the Dred Scott decision.

‘Seventy IV Seconds’ play to debut at the Arden

05 September 2017 Rebecca Smith

Playwright Kash Goins’ newest work addresses race, law and police brutality.

Second anti-Trump protest makes way through Main Campus

09 November 2016 Evan Easterling

Students joined thousands from across the city to protest the President-elect.

Anker: Race, ethnicity not deterrents in casting process

09 April 2013 Marcie Anker

Anker continues her look into the politics of casting in the theater world.

Controversial comedy questions stereotypes

27 September 2010 Danette Coombs

Laughter proved to be a valuable learning tool in N*gger, Wetb*ck, Ch*nk, a racially fueled comedy.

Movers & Shakers: Lori Tharps

26 April 2010 Maria Santilli

Whether they’re rewiring students’ minds to engineer this generation’s own Wall-E or slapping wrists with tough love in Speakman Hall, some Temple faculty and administrators are going out of their way to make a splash on Main Campus, with waves that reverberate beyond. The Temple News gives teachers’ apples and gold stars to a few of them in our first ever Movers & Shakers issue.

Tainted word becomes OK to say

19 April 2010

On a 9 a.m. bike ride through North Philadelphia, Keith Spotwood stopped in front of his old stomping grounds where, for him, the N-word became “natural, depending on how you use it.”

Is the N-word acceptable?

19 April 2010 Jillian Weir-Reeves

With more people using the N-word in everyday conversation, two writers discuss its place today.