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Dear Brothers and Sisters: The Black Community has a dirty little secret that everyone knows about, including the media, but no one discusses.  It’s a secret like the “N” word.  Many utter it privately, but it’s not mentioned in public.  That “secret” is the very troubling difficulty that we, as blacks, have with spending our…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Photos: City Diner The new City Diner at Broad and South Streets in Center City provides really good food at affordable prices, but you might want to take the Broad Street Line to get there. By Denise Clay Because covering the 2016 Presidential Election for the SUN has kept me on the road…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Minister Rodney Muhammad When the Philadelphia NAACP held elections on Saturday, not a lot changed. By Denise Clay On Saturday, the members of the Philadelphia NAACP came to Freedom Theater in North Philadelphia and voted to give Minister Rodney Muhammad a second term as the organization’s president. The leader of Nation of Islam…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Courtesy Greensgrow Farms) By Amy V. Simmons Bringing together her passions of farming, healthy eating, sustainability, and building community was not originally part of Mary Seton Corboy’s original business plan when — along with then-business partner Tom Sereduk — she decided to relocate their for- profit hydroponic lettuce farm from rural Pennsylvania to…

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Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams reminds upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday shoppers to be safe and smart when making their store and online purchases with these simple shopping tips. “The malls and stores will be crowded on Black Friday, which is why it is important to have a designated rendezvous point in case…

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In photo (from left) City Councilman David Oh, City Councilman Curtis Jones, GCL President Rochelle Bilal, City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, GCL board members, (Ret.) Chief Inspector Art Matthews, and Crystal Williams.  (Photo: Bill Z. Foster) Philadelphia City Council honored the Guardian Civic League for 60 years of doing what it can to improve police/community relations….

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Daughters Nichole and Paula join the sisters of Betty Stanley as they pose in front of the newly-named Betty Stanley Memorial Civil Processing Center.L-R: Nichole Stanley, Dorothy Smith, Catherine Stafford, Velva Smalls, Paula Cropper, Delores Mitchell. Betty “Tootie” Stanley, who worked 40 years for the Office of the Sheriff of Philadelphia City & County, died…

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Friends of the Coalition honor their peers By Monica Peters Keeping with tradition, Friends of the Urban Affairs Coalition held their annual reception on Nov. 15 immediately following the 47th Anniversary Urban Affairs Coalition Breakfast at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Friends of the Coalition, the private invite-only post-breakfast ,serves as an opportunity for persons to…

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 HARRISBURG, Nov. 16 – Calling it an extreme honor to have the opportunity to be a strong voice for African-Americans and people of color across the commonwealth, state Rep. Jordan Harris, D-Phila., was elected Tuesday to serve as the chairman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus. “Being elected to serve as the chairman of the…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  John Cole, ncpolicywatch.com If nothing else, the 2016 Presidential Election showed us that you are, indeed, entitled to your own facts. By Denise Clay “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” By the time I walked out of Temple University’s School of Communications, that particular…

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