by Laura Barclay | Sep 14, 2011 | Opinion
Friday, Sept. 2, 2011, was more than a year in the making for HectorVillanueva. Villanueva is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC) pastor and legal resident who faced deportation after applying for citizenship and then being arrested for a...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Sep 13, 2011 | Opinion
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were personally devastating to thousands of people. Nearly 3,000 victims died. The families and friends who lost loved ones so unexpectedly and violently not only had to suffer their own grief, but they also had to endure the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Sep 13, 2011 | Opinion
Izdat Said Qadoos, a poor Palestinian villager, probably said it well: “[Born-again Christian evangelicals] are filled with ideas that this is the Promised Land and their duty is to help the Jews. It is not the Promised Land. It is our land.” Qadoos’...
by Diana Farhood | Sep 12, 2011 | Opinion
Salwa Haddad is one member of a gradually increasing group of people who do not get talked about at great length. Smyrna Khalaf Moughabghab is another. This group consists of people who are at the unique intersection of three previously incompatible categories: (1)...
by Fred Guttman | Sep 12, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The remarks below were given by Rabbi Fred Guttman on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, N.C. The Baal Shem Tov once taught: “Forgetfulness leads to Exile. Remembrance is the secret to Redemption.” We have...
by Robert Parham | Sep 12, 2011 | Opinion
We are entering a new war against public education, according to an article posted Aug. 17 in Slate, a daily web magazine. The headline read, “The GOP’s New War on Schools.” As if on cue, Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry degraded public education the...
