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Business Wire NEWARK, N.J. — Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audio books and other spoken-word entertainment, announced the release of “The Radical King”. This collection of 23 of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s essays and speeches, curated by Cornel West, is performed by LeVar Burton, Mike Colter, Leslie…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks between seven-year-old Eva Gracelemon, left, and 10-year-old Aritha Willis as he escorts black school children to formerly all-white schools in Grenada, Miss., Tuesday morning, Sept. 20, 1966.   (AP Photo)   By Amy V. Simmons The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was dead. The hopes of so…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Bill Cosby, right, arrives for his sexual assault case spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, left, at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)   By Michael R. Sisak associated press NORRISTOWN, Pa. — After a showdown over race, the jury picked to decide Bill Cosby’s fate in the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Louise Williams Bishop, Leslie Patterson Tyler, Lisa Thomas Laury and Patricia Clifford. Photo: Robert Mendelsohn   By Patricia Gilliam Clifford 105.3 WDAS FM Radio hosted its Fourth Annual Women Of Excellence Awards Luncheon presented by Gwynedd Mercy University and sponsored  in part by Always Best Care Philly & Delaware, Women Organized Against Rape,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Photo courtesy: City Hall)   On Wednesday, Mayor Jim Kenney introduced the city to the group of nine people who will be running the school district from now on.   By Denise Clay When the School Reform Commission voted to dissolve itself in November, the question on everyone’s mind was who would be…

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(Philadelphia) – Mayor Kenney today announced his nine appointees to the Philadelphia Board of Education, which will assume governance over the School District of Philadelphia in July 2018. The appointees are: Julia Danzy Leticia Egea-Hinton Mallory Fix Lopez Lee Huang Maria McColgan Chris McGinley Angela McIver Wayne Walker Joyce Wilkerson Mayor Kenney selected the new…

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(AP) Villanova has its second national championship in three years after a 79-62 victory over Michigan. The Wildcats went 31 years between their first title in 1985 and their second one two years ago in Houston. Coach Jay Wright and Villanova didn’t have to wait very long for another one. Donte DiVincenzo had 31 points…

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge has ruled Meek Mill should remain behind bars while appealing a prison sentence for violating probation, saying the rapper’s drug use, arrests and other issues while under supervision merited the jail time. Judge Genece Brinkley turned down Mill’s bid for release on bail in a ruling late Thursday while he…

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I went on the first iBuyBlack business shopping tour last weekend.  Glenn Ragin, Jr. from J.A.M.M. TOURS told me the story of how his father started the company years ago after retiring from a well-known interstate bus company.  The bus they provided was a beautiful 55 seater.  Glenn filled me in on some of the…

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Mayor’s funding proposal will result in expanded educational investments while ensuring five years of fiscal stability for Philadelphia’s public schools    Last week, the School Reform Commission (SRC) approved a resolution adopting the $3.15 billion Lump Sum Budget for the School District of Philadelphia for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19).  After years of financial challenges the…

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