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By Kayla Taylor Dear parents and caretakers: Parents dealing with poverty, parents facing fears of systematic racism, parents with Black children that go to white schools, and parents who are abusive to their children knowingly and unknowingly, this is for you! Change is good! It might be about time to reinvent the process of learning…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Pastor Brian Jenkins of the Chosen 300 Ministries speaks to the crowds. By Jim Brown Even with the threat of rain, lightning  and thunder, the rescheduled 2020 Freedom Now rally, held on Friday, Aug. 7, retained so much of it’s urgency and purpose that it kept the commemorative event from being diminished. Fifty-five…

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ABOVE PHOTOS: Dr. Toni Damon, Principal of Murrell Dobbins High School and Dr. Robin Cooper, President of Teamsters Local 502 By Thera Martin  The spring semester of 2020 for Philadelphia’s public school students was a bit touch and go. So many young people never experienced online instruction.  Now that the fall semester is upon us, school…

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State Rep. Morgan Cephas (D-192nd Dist.) has announced that $100,000 in funding is going to the Trades for a Difference organization in Philadelphia to support their housing project aimed at offering affordable living to those who need it most.  Cephas said the organization will use these resources, which were made available through the Pennsylvania Housing…

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 The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) is mourning the loss of former Commissioner Nellie Reynolds, a champion of hope who devoted herself for more than 50 years to advancing justice and improving the quality of life for Philadelphia’s public housing residents. Ms. Reynolds, who was 96, passed away over the weekend. “Ms. Reynolds was like a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A half-million census takers head out en mass this week to knock on the doors of households that haven’t yet responded to the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)…

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By Michael Rubinkam ASSOCIATED PRESS  High school athletes across Pennsylvania will be taking the field this fall, after all. Ending weeks of uncertainty, the governing body for Pennsylvania interscholastic sports voted Friday to move forward with the fall season, rejecting the governor’s recommendation that all youth sports be postponed until 2021 to help stop the…

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By Marc Levy ASSOCIATED PRESS  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With barely three weeks to go before counties can begin mailing out ballots, lawsuits are filling the vacuum of action to fix problems or ambiguities with Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting laws after a primary election that saw record-smashing numbers of mailed-in votes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Closed-door…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Vice President Mike Pence arrives with his wife Karen Pence to speak on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin And Kevin Freking ASSOCIATED PRESS  BALTIMORE  — Vice President Mike…

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ABOVE PHOTO: First lady Melania Trump speaks on the second day of the Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)  The business of the Republican National Convention was over by Monday afternoon. But the speech making went on and on and on….

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