Articles by Philadelphia Sun Staff

JET app will launch June 30 CHICAGO — JET magazine will release its final print issue, hitting newsstands on June 9.    The cover of the last issue salutes JET magazine’s iconic history by featuring images of previous covers throughout the past 63 years. Inside, readers will find a retrospective of the news covered in…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Leo Smith, minority engagement director for the Georgia Republican Party, left, meeting with from second left, Michael McNeely, party first vice-chairman, Michael Roundtree, chairman of the Morehouse College Republicans and Jessica Hayes, district director for Republican Rep. Paul Broun, at the Georgia GOP headquarters in Atlanta. Smith and other black Republicans who recruit…

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By Rahim Islam It’s no longer what they are doing to us; it’s what we are not doing!!! The Black community has been through it all and continues to struggle with the number of disparities that we face (i.e. heath, incarcerations, education, employment, etc.), but there is no bigger disparity and more damaging to our…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Some of the escaped kidnapped girls of the government secondary school Chibok, attend a meeting with Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, June 2, 2014. Nigerian police say they have banned protests in the capital demanding that the government rescues the more than 200 girls still held captive by Boko…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This image made from video posted by Iraqi Revolution, a group supporting the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows militants on Al-Sharqat base north of Tikrit, Iraq.   (AP Photo/Iraqi0Revolution via AP video) …

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America does many things well. Sex is not on the list.  alternet.org We get many things right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. We were the first to put a man on the moon (Neil Armstrong), the first to achieve flight (the Wright brothers), and we came up with the greatest television phenomenon…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Mt. Airy USA Community Development Corporation announces the successfully completion of its first residential rehabilitation initiative under the PA Blighted & Abandoned Property Conservatorship Act. Pictured are Gage Duran, Real Estate Development Project Manager, Mt. Airy USA CDC; Kyasha Tyson, Special Projects & Public Relations Manager, Eric Linter, CEO, Dale Corporation; Anuj Gupta,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Rep. W. Curtis Thomas   In an attempt to reinvigorate the Second Stage Loan Program, State Rep. W. Curtis Thomas, D-Phila., has introduced a bill this week that would increase small businesses’ access to capital by expanding the underutilized program. Thomas’s bill, H.B. 2315, would allow both commercial lending institutions and economic development…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Mary Mary  (AP Photo/John Bazemore)   Jazz icons Al Jarreau and David Sanborn will perform at the Dell Music Center for the first time during the 2014 Essence of Entertainment concert series, a star-studded summer of concerts with artists including Roberta Flack, The O’Jays, Fantasia and Larry Graham.  Returning to the Dell for…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marvin Sapp   An exhilarating array of original, artistic programming will link the arts with civil rights history as the Mann continues the Philadelphia Freedom Festival, it began February.  The Philadelphia Freedom Festival is a seven–‐month endeavor to commemorate the life and legacy of Octavius V. Catto, a 19th–‐century Philadelphian and African–‐American civil…

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