http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson RSS Feed for Inq Col Harold Jackson en-us Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:21:04 GMT 2012-04-22T11:21:04Z en-us http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20120422_Back_to_the_50s_.html 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? Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:21:04 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20120422_Back_to_the_50s_.html 2012-04-22T11:21:04Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20120115_Recalling_a_school_closing_that_opened_a_new_world.html The worst thing that can happen to a teenager is seeing his high school close the summer before his senior year. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20120115_Recalling_a_school_closing_that_opened_a_new_world.html 2012-01-15T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20111113_Two_coaching_departures.html 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. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:23:07 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20111113_Two_coaching_departures.html 2011-11-13T12:23:07Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110925_The_class_warfare_to_fear_is_that_stirred_by_poverty.html Growing 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. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110925_The_class_warfare_to_fear_is_that_stirred_by_poverty.html 2011-09-25T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110828_Monument_fit_for_a_King.html Like 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. Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110828_Monument_fit_for_a_King.html 2011-08-28T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110724_A_model_of_grace_falls_far.html Chris McNair is in prison. Those words can't help but sadden many people, especially African Americans, who lived in Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s. Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110724_A_model_of_grace_falls_far.html 2011-07-24T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110522_For_some__anything_but_status_quo.html The 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. Sun, 22 May 2011 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20110522_For_some__anything_but_status_quo.html 2011-05-22T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20070216_That_worrisome_trade_deficit.html '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. Wed, 02 May 2007 19:15:03 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20070216_That_worrisome_trade_deficit.html 2007-05-02T19:15:03Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20070209_Fix_violence_by_fixing_prisons.html There are several schools of thought on the best way to reduce the violence in Philadelphia that resulted in more than 400 murders last year. Thu, 08 May 2008 16:05:39 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20070209_Fix_violence_by_fixing_prisons.html 2008-05-08T16:05:39Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20070501_Under_the_Sun___Fight_the_stereotype.html The 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. Fri, 18 May 2007 15:36:53 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/harold_jackson/20070501_Under_the_Sun___Fight_the_stereotype.html 2007-05-18T15:36:53Z