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Dick Polman

Dick Polman

Opinion contributor Dick Polman, a veteran national political columnist based in Philadelphia and a Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, writes at DickPolman.net. His work appears on Mondays on the Capital-Star’s Commentary Page. Readers may email him at [email protected].

COMMENTARY

It’s time. Put Harriet Tubman on the $20

By: - February 4, 2021

I’ll readily admit that the face gracing the $20 bill is not our most urgent issue — not with 433,000 people needlessly dead and 45 Republican senators saying that their insurrectionist-in-exile should get a pass. So, in that sense, it surely matters whether the face on the $20 bill depicts a racist genocidal white guy […]