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• Editorial | Ceasefire now

  By Cheryl DurgansFebruary 5, 2024

  

  “We believe we are witnessing the horrors of genocide, that it is wrong, and that we, as reporters — no matter how small we are — must stand on the side of truth in relaying this tragic reality.”

• COLUMN: Into the thicket

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 28, 2020

  

  A briar patch is a “thicket formed by any number of unrelated thorny parts.” The briar patch figures prominently in the escape route of “Brer Rabbit,” the trickster figure in African American folktales in the mid-1800s.