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An award-winning columnist for the Op-Ed section, Jackson was a 2001 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. He also is known for his nature photography, and his images of Barack Obama have been exhibited by Boston's Museum of African American History.
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It’s Nixon Week at the White House
By Derrick Z. Jackson , Globe Columnist
In fretting about the Tea Party and leaks to the press, the Obama administration is showing an unprecedented display of paranoia and abridgement of freedom.
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The decency to bury a body
By Derrick Z. Jackson , Globe Columnist
We came to view the Marathon bombing as a unique event, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev as uniquely evil, which justified a sense of anger so vast that it was self-poisoning.
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Tough on violence?
By Derrick Z. Jackson , Globe columnist
As Democrats and Republicans praised the courage of first responders and citizens who comforted victims in Boston, a bipartisan Senate gun-control compromise was killed in the Senate.
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Runners and supporters share a bond of trust
By Derrick Z. Jackson ,
One of the only things that is clear is that the attack struck directly at the deep connection between sports and our common civic life.