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The Harriott, a riverboat, remains docked on Aug. 8, 2023, on the Alabama riverfront in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.

Clarence Page: Why #MontgomeryRiverfrontBrawl gained new meaning in Black conversations

August 13, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

It's summertime but, contrary to George Gershwin's classic tune from "Porgy and Bess," the livin' was not easy at the event memorialized in a social media hashtag as simply #MontgomeryRiverfrontBrawl....

A photograph of Sen. Josh Hawley pumping his fist toward the rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, is shown during a hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 21, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: A crisis of masculinity? More like politics as usual.

August 9, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Perhaps it's only coincidental but this, the summer of "Barbie," also is the summer of our discontent in politics — over manhood. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, helped to...

A statue of Thomas Jefferson standing next to a stack of bricks marked with the names of people he enslaved is exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016.

Clarence Page: Slavery has benefits, Gov. DeSantis? Only when it stops.

August 6, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Standing his ground, even as it turns into political quicksand beneath his feet, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has dug in his heels to defend a barely defensible passage in his...

Ryan Gosling, left, as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in" Barbie.".

Clarence Page: Don’t worry, Ken, there’s room in Barbie’s world

August 2, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Let's hear it for Ken. Yes, I'm talking about the Mattel doll or, as my son called him in his day care days, "Barbie's action figure." My wife and I...

David Grusch, a former intelligence officer, is sworn in July 26, 2023, before a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: Can Congress pry our government’s UFO ‘X-Files’ open? The truth is still out there.

July 28, 2023 at 6:32 p.m.

At last, in the swampy heat of late-summer Washington, Congress appears to have stumbled across an issue on which both of our contentious political parties find remarkable agreement: UFOs. Or...

Jason Aldean on stage during third day of CMA Fest 2023 at Nissan Stadium on June 10, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Clarence Page: Jason Aldean’s dream is my nightmare

July 25, 2023 at 6:12 p.m.

Summer is almost half over, and I'm still looking to see what the "song of the summer" is going to be. That's not as easy to determine as it used...

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, left, speaks during a confirmation hearing for Air Force Gen. Charles Brown in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 11, 2023 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: A ‘woke’ military? Don’t forget the messy race relations that got us here.

July 24, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Recent Republican moves to limit diversity training and transgender rights and other hot-button controversies stemming from the annual defense authorization bill remind me of my own days in uniform back...

Mahalia Jackson, left, sings "We Shall Overcome" with civil rights leaders the Rev. Martin Luther King, third left, Jesse Jackson, second from right, and Albert Raby, right, on Aug. 4, 1966. The event happened at 844 W. 71st St. in Chicago.

Clarence Page: The Rev. Jesse Jackson is not retiring, only ‘pivoting,’ and still keeping hope alive

July 18, 2023 at 5:25 p.m.

With the news that the Rev. Jesse Jackson is retiring or, as he prefers to call it, "pivoting" from the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that he has led for more than a...

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters before the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act at the U.S. Capitol on July 14, 2023, in Washington.

Clarence Page: The defense bill is no longer a no-brainer as Speaker McCarthy gives in to far-right faction

July 17, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Despite the rowdy episodes of fussing, feuding and fighting that we see erupt out of the Congress, matters as routine as the annual defense policy bill have tended to slide...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas listens as President Donald Trump speaks before administering the constitutional oath to new Justice Amy Coney Barrett at the White House in Washington on Oct. 26, 2020.

Clarence Page: Clarence Thomas’ American Dream — with a little help from his friends

July 12, 2023 at 8:46 a.m.

If you live long enough to see your heroes deposed from their former glory by the exposure of long-hidden truths, it can make you feel as though, maybe, you have...

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