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Historic Mother Bethel AME Presents “Pearls Of Wisdom” tea this Saturday (5/4) from 1-4pm featuring women aged 9-90. This inter-generational celebration will showcase talent and fashion including fascinators, wide-brimmed hats, pearls & lace gloves.

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Beech Interplex, Inc. is partnering with the Cecil. B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters (Freedom Fighters), Girard College and the Philadelphia Police Department’s 22nd District for a March Against Violence on Saturday, May 4. 

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Reach Communications Specialists , Inc., a former long-time contractor of the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, recently filed a 27-count lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages against City Controller Alan Butkovitz, the Sheriff of Philadelphia, former Acting Sheriff Barbara Deeley…

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State Rep. Cherelle L. Parker, D-Phila., and other members of the state House and Senate Philadelphia delegations, will participate in a local symposium Thursday aimed at public transportation worker and rider safety.

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From 1998 to 2008, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was at war. Like many wars, it was a war over stuff, in this case mineral rights. Neighbors took up arms against each other. Children and farmers were pressed into service to fight.

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Over five weeks of testimony, Philadelphia prosecutors have painted Dr. Kermit Gosnell as an eccentric, detached boss who relied on untrained staff to perform abortions at his outdated, inner-city clinic. But have they proven he murdered a woman and seven babies born alive?

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While Blacks have a ton of purchasing power in America, that purchasing power hasn’t been able to translate into one very important thing: media ownership. According to the Federal Communications Commission, African Americans own less than one percent of the television stations in America and…

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Nicole Johnson-Reece, Executive Director of the Multicultural Affairs Congress (MAC), a division of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) and Julie Coker, PHLCVB Senior Vice President today joined faculty and staff of the Temple University School of Tourism and…

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From spring until fall, Philadelphia hosts a variety of festivals that music fans and culture vultures will consider must-dos, must-sees and must-hears. For music fans, there’s the second-annual Budweiser Made In America concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, headlined by Beyonce.

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Due to discrimination in funding and several lesser factors, debt has been a constant companion of Cheyney University for more than three decades but with a lean state treasury and a bad economy the institution is awash in red ink. Is the historic “teacher’s college” in imminent crisis? 

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