As President Barack Obama begins his second term, there is something noticeably different about his new cabinet - the absence of African-American leaders and advisors. The Congressional Black Caucus chair, Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio…
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Four thousand people gathered at the art museum of Philadelphia, to do their part to help alleviate America’s hunger during the Stroehmann’ Walk+Run Against Hunger drive organized by The Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger, Saturday.…
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While lawmakers in Washington began earnestly debating whether or not to pass stronger gun laws on Thursday, a fistfight across the street from a Philadelphia high school ended with a 17-year old boy dead from…
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BOSTON — Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 80 in a terrifying scene of shattered glass, billowing…
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Philadelphia contractor Benjamin Jones, a participant in the School District of Philadelphia’s initiative to utilize small, minority-owned businesses, said his company has received decreasing amounts of work from the district despite his paying thousands of…
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If Black owned small businesses receive a backhand from School District spending practices, Philadelphia residents and School District grads needing employment receive a poke in the eye. In 2006, the School District of Philadelphia and…
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