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Jackson has also been an editorial writer at the Baltimore Sun and the Birmingham (Ala.) News. While at the News, he and two colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1991 for a series on changing Alabama's tax system. He also worked for United Press International and the Birmingham Post-Herald.
Email Harold at hjackson@phillynews.com
Harold Jackson
Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., I never thought I would do what I did last week, which is stay at the Tutwiler Hotel while I was in town for a retirement party. Back then it wasn’t so much that the Tutwiler was segregated, which it was when I was a child in the 1950s and ’60s, as it was that any hotel would be too costly for my family. Then, too, we didn’t own a car or take vacations, so who needed a hotel?
By Harold Jackson, Editor of the Editorial Page
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01/15/2012
The worst thing that can happen to a teenager is seeing his high school close the summer before his senior year.
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Two coaching departures - 11/13/2011
- Alabama's Paul "Bear" Bryant left amid rumblings that it was time for him to go. Unlike Joe Paterno, he left on his own terms.By Harold Jackson, Editor of the Editorial PageHarold Jackson: The firing of Penn State's Joe Paterno brought back memories of another old coach who went out not in a blaze of glory, but after many disenchanted fans were ready to usher him out the door.
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The class warfare to fear is that stirred by poverty - 09/25/2011
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By Harold Jackson, Editor of the Editorial PageGrowing up poor isn't so bad. Most poor kids don't even notice it, since it's unlikely that their friends and neighbors are doing any better. But being accustomed to poverty doesn't excuse its existence.
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Monument fit for a King - 08/28/2011
- First person of color honored on the Mall.By Harold Jackson, Editor of the Editorial PageLike most people, I get too much mail from groups asking for donations. Most of it is discarded, but not the request I received to help fund the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington, which was opened to the public last week.
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A model of grace falls far - 07/24/2011
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By Harold Jackson, Editor of the Editorial PageChris McNair is in prison. Those words can't help but sadden many people, especially African Americans, who lived in Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s.
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For some, anything but status quo - 05/22/2011
- As Street finds victory in loss, his brother may feel encouraged to seek old office.By Harold Jackson, Editor of the Editorial PageThe 24 percent of the vote that ex-convict T. Milton Street Sr. got in the Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday was significant, but it sounds more impressive than it actually was, given the dismal 18 percent turnout.
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That worrisome trade deficit - 05/02/2007
- The problem is, we buy more goods than we sell, and we borrow to make up the difference.Inquirer Staff'Now, don't you worry your pretty little head about that" always seems to be the retort of the economics literati when the economically stupid start asking questions about the U.S. trade deficit.
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Under the Sun: Fix violence by fixing prisons - 05/02/2007
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Inquirer StaffThere are several schools of thought on the best way to reduce the violence in Philadelphia that resulted in more than 400 murders last year.
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Under the Sun | Fight the stereotype - 05/01/2007

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By Harold Jackson, Inquirer ColumnistThe Book of Ecclesiastes says all is vanity and vexation under the sun. That's certainly the way a lot of us feel about the Philadelphia mayoral candidates. They're either vain or vexing. But they're also well qualified.
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