Week In Review

It is a city that has played such a critical role in the evolution of Jazz music, and ultimately, music in general. Sadly, the city’s only Jazz radio station, WRTI, is largely disconnected from the Philadelphia Jazz scene, even during Jazz Appreciation Month.

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In an unusually low-key turn to a high-profile case, George Zimmerman was released without incident around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.

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Brian Carter, better known as simply Carter, of the well-known “Carter and Sanborn Morning Show” died last Sunday morning. He was age of 56. Carter and Dave Sanborn hosted the popular Carter and Sanborn Morning Show on Power 99 (WUSL FM) from 1987 until 1999.

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The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history Monday, honored for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given.

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His identity as “the world’s oldest teenager” became strained in recent years, as time and infirmity caught up with his enduring boyishness. But he owned New Year’s Eve after four decades hosting his annual telecast on ABC from Times Square.

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CBS newsman Mike Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make 60 Minutes the most successful primetime television news program ever, has died. He was 93.

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The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the loss of CBS newsman Mike Wallace. He died last night at the age of 93. Wallace’s career spanned 60 years. he was on the staff of “60 Minutes” when it began in 1968.

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Make no mistake about it. Seventeen-year old Trayvon Martin is dead because of his race. In this white supremacist country it has always been considered much less of a crime to kill a black man than to kill a white one.

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In an election-year pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama is denouncing a House Republican budget plan as a “Trojan horse,” warning that it represents “an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country” that would hurt working families.

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The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission ordered the City of Philadelphia Prison System to pay Jill Toomer of Philadelphia $31,256 in back pay, plus interest, for discriminating against her based on her sex. The order took effect March 27.

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