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Barron, to open a $3.5 million Center for Racial Justice. our Susan Snyder explores the contrasting views of two big universities. EAGLES THE LATEST ON THE NFL PLAYOFFS The Eagles got to rest this long holiday weekend thanks to its No. 1 seed and the bye week that ensured for the first round of playoffs. our Eagles beat writers and colum- nists have the latest on the prepara- tion for their first postseason test following this long wild-card weekend, which wraps with the Dallas-Tampa Bay game Monday night.

Stay tuned to Inquirer.com for all the essential updates. EDUCATION A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEARNING LOSS The young students are struggling to manage their emotions. The older ones are unmotivated even by the most creative of assignments. From preschool teachers to college professors, veteran educators across the region are witnessing a learning loss not measured by math and reading tests and showing up in regressed behaviors usually present at younger ages, or in increased anxiety or withdrawal. CONSUMERS EGG PRICES HITTING BREAKFAST SPOTS AND CONSUMERS HARD From her Point Breeze brunch bistro, Mal- lory Fix-Lopez has watched the price of eggs creep up from about $50 for a case of 30 dozen a year ago, to $127 last week.

on Point Bistro, which she owns with her hus- band and head chef, Juan Lopez, has raised prices on menu items about $2 across the board over the course of the pandemic, with omelets now costing $15, she said. But their net profit continues to be than it was pre-CoVID, despite a revenue jump of about over the same period. CRIMINAL JUSTICE GOV. TOM WOLF PARDONED MEEK MILL Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf granted rapper Meek Mill clemency on a 15-year-old drug and weapons possession charge in his last round of pardons, issued Thursday.

The pardon is one of 369 Wolf issued in January, bringing his total to over 2,540 during his eight years in office, the most of any Penn- sylvania governor. See the reaction from the rapper, whose birth name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, now cleared of charges of marijuana possession and carrying a fire- arm in Philadelphia. Clearing the Record In Inquirer, an article about repa- rations in Evanston, incorrectly referred to Northwestern University as Northwest University. What does a laundromat have to do with health insurance? Turns out quite a bit. Go to Inquirer.com to find out what Fabric Health outreach workers were doing Saturday at the Laundry in the Parkside section of West Philadelphia and why making connections was so essential.

Tyger Williams Staff Photographer Biden: Americans should to legacy By Aamer Madhani Associated Press ATLANTA President Joe Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to freedom to mark the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King birthday, saying that democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights life and legacy us the way and we should pay As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Biden cited the telling ques- tion that King himself once asked of the nation. said, do we go from Biden said from the pulpit. my message to this nation on this day is we go forward, we go together, when we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers and the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the In a divided country only two years removed from a violent insurrection, Biden told congregants, elected officials, and dig- nitaries that battle for the soul of this nation is perennial.

a constant struggle between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and He spoke out against those who in racism, extremism, and said the struggle to safeguard democracy was playing out in courthouses and ballot boxes, protests and other ways. our best, the American promise wins out. But I need to tell you that not always at our best. fallible. We fail and The stop at Ebenezer came at a delicate moment for Biden after Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate how the president handled clas- sified documents after leaving the vice pres- idency in 2017.

The White House on Saturday revealed that additional classified records were found at Wilmington home. In introducing Biden, the senior pastor, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock noted that the president was devout Cath- for whom Baptist service might be a little bit rambunctious and animated. But I saw him over there clapping his King, greatest American prophet of the 20th as Warnock put it, served as co-pastor from 1960 until he was assassi- nated in 1968. Warnock, like many battleground state Democrats who won reelection in 2022, kept his distance during the campaign from Biden as the approval rating lagged and the inflation rate climbed.

But with the election behind him and a full six-year term ahead, Warnock fully embraced Biden at the service. Near the close, he asked Biden to come to the front of the church and asked congregants to pray for the president as he listed several of legis- lative achievements. my friends, is said War- nock, adding that Biden a little some- thing to do with As Biden begins to turn his attention toward an expected 2024 reelection effort, Georgia is going to get plenty of his attention. In 2020, Biden managed to win Georgia as well as closely contested Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Black votes made up a disproportionate share of the Democratic electorate. Turning out Black voters in those states will be essential to 2024 hopes.

The White House has tried to promote agenda in minority communities. The White House has cited efforts to encourage states to take equity into account for public works projects as they spend money from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The administration also has acted to end sen- tencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses, scrapping a policy widely seen as racist. The administration also highlights work to diversify the federal judiciary, includ- ing his appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the confirmation of 11 Black women judges to federal appeals courts more than those installed to those powerful courts under all previous presi- dents combined. failure to win passage of a measure that would have bolstered voting right pro- tections, a central campaign pledge, is one of his biggest disappointments of his first two years in office.

The task is even steeper now that Republicans control the House. In his remarks, the president said that for all the progress the United States has made, the country had now reached a critical point. He said democracies can backslide, noting the collapse of the institutional structures of democracy in places such as Brazil. is never easy, but always pos- sible and things do get better in our march to a more perfect he said. at this inflection point, we know a lot of work that has to continue on economic justice, civil rights, voting rights, protecting our democracy.

And remembering our job is to redeem the soul of This moment, he said, the time of choosing. Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy? ask that question 15 years ago because everybody thought democracy was settled. But Americans, he said, to choose a community over chaos. These are the vital questions of our time and the reason why here as your president. I believe Dr.

life and legacy show us the way and we should pay King, who was born on Jan. 15, 1929, was killed at age 39. He helped drive passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Members of family attended the service, including his 95-year- old sister, Christine King Farris. spoken before parliaments, kings, queens, leaders of the world but this is intim- Biden said in opening his sermon.

The president plans to be in Washington on Monday to speak at the National Action Net- annual breakfast on the King holiday. The president delivered a Sunday morning sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church. He said more must be done to safeguard democracy. President Joe Biden greats Christine King Farris, sister of the Rev. Dr.

Martin Luther King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Carolyn Kaster AP Biden holds hands with Sen. Raphael Warnock, a senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor and senior adviser to Biden for public engagement..