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Will Smith attends the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on March 27.

Clarence Page: Will Smith’s slap embarrassed more than Hollywood, although that’s a start

March 29, 2022 at 5:57 p.m.

If you think you've heard enough about what some are calling Will Smith's "slap heard around the world," I beg your indulgence. Smith embarrassed more than the Academy of Motion...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson answers questions from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on March 22 in Washington.

Clarence Page: Little room for rationality in attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record

March 25, 2022 at 5:42 p.m.

The Supreme Court nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson should have gone down as easily as ice cream on a hot summer day. That was before a cloud of...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on her nomination to become a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on March 22.

Clarence Page: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s defense background matters too

March 22, 2022 at 5:28 p.m.

When Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican leader from Kentucky, suggested that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had "a special empathy for criminals," he was not speaking as though that was a...

Marchers make their way toward the St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg, Florida, on March 12, 2022, during a march to protest the controversial "Don't say gay" bill passed by Florida's Republican-led legislature.

Clarence Page: Free speech is under assault, but we still need to talk

March 18, 2022 at 4:14 p.m.

After witnessing Vladimir Putin brutally, yet routinely, assault basic freedoms in Russia and Ukraine, it is reassuring to think of free speech as alive and well in America. Yet polls...

Chicago artist Richard Hunt, left, and Ida B. Wells' great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, lower right, unveil a plaque with an image and quote under a monument in honor of journalist and activist Ida B. Wells in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on June 30, 2021.

Clarence Page: TV’s ‘Gilded Age’ tries to fill a gap in Black history

March 15, 2022 at 5:07 p.m.

Hey, is that young Black actor in HBO's "The Gilded Age" supposed to be Ida B. Wells? I'm not the only viewer who has asked that question about the period...

Actor Jussie Smollett speaks to Judge James Linn after his sentence is read on March 10, 2022, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

Clarence Page: Jussie Smollett’s sideshow mocks real tragedies

March 11, 2022 at 7:46 p.m.

True to his profession, actor Jussie Smollett reacted to his sentence of jail time for his hate-crime hoax, with the passion of a courtroom drama. As he was about to...

African students who used to study in Ukraine are seen in temporary accomodation in a sports hall in Przemysl, in eastern Poland on Feb. 28, 2022.

Clarence Page: Ukraine’s crisis is no excuse for racism or xenophobia

March 8, 2022 at 5:27 p.m.

How should we Americans feel about reports from Ukraine that, amid the chaos of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, some Africans, Arabs and other refugees of color have been treated...

President Joe Biden arrives to deliver the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2022, in Washington.

Clarence Page: President Joe Biden needed to defend himself against the ‘defund the police’ smear

March 4, 2022 at 5:58 p.m.

When President Joe Biden called for "funding the police" in his State of the Union speech, some outraged conservatives responded like a child whose favorite toy had been taken away....

President Joe Biden nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, seen Feb., 18, 2022, to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on the court.

Clarence Page: First Black woman Supreme Court nominee faces same old ‘ridiculousness’

March 1, 2022 at 6:29 p.m.

You can tell a lot about the strength of President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee by the weakness and shallowness of the political backlash against her. When Biden announced on...

A woman outside St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Feb. 25, 2022, in New York.

Clarence Page: We stand for democracy in Ukraine, but don’t seem so certain about the price

February 25, 2022 at 5:56 p.m.

It brings cold comfort to Mitt Romney, I'm sure, to be reminded that he was right about Vladimir Putin in 2012. But it offers a cautionary note to anybody else...

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