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Temple Police hosts Annual Children’s Holiday Party

December 6, 2013

For over 20 years, Temple’s Department of Campus Safety Services hosts a holiday/party for children and their families in the North Philadelphia community. The party is organized by members of the department and aided by volunteers from Temple’s student organizations and community relations professionals.

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45th NAACP Image Awards submissions set new record

December 6, 2013

Online nominations voting opens December 9th Los Angeles–Online voting will begin on December 9th, officially completing this year’s record breaking submissions process for the 45th NAACP Image Awards. Members of the 300-person Nominating Committee, and 20 sub-committees will have until December 30, 2013 to select from nearly 1,600 entries for the 54 award categories. The…

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The Challengers

December 1, 2013

Politicians are a lot like sharks…if they smell blood in the water, they run toward it. So if you’re an incumbent governor with approval ratings in the cellar, a whole lot of sharks come to call. While the sharks may not come from your own school of fish, they’re coming… and they’re coming in bunches.

 

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Job Corps education and training centers are accepting students

December 1, 2013

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program is accepting applications throughout the autumn and winter months. The program provides free education and training for eligible young people, ages 16 to 24, to help them start a career, earn a high school diploma or equivalent credential and find and keep a good job.

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Politically Uncorrected: The Elephant in the Room

December 1, 2013

It wasn’t a “big” story. In fact, the article published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last June received little follow-up and even less attention. That’s unfortunate – because it’s a story that explains the anxiety so many Americans express about both Obama’s Affordable Care Act and even “reasonable” gun controls.

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Motown, Philly, Back Again

November 22, 2013

During the early days of Motown Records, founder Berry Gordy had to do a lot of things himself. Among those things was promote the records of artists like Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye and others by going around the country to get their records…

 

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