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November 22, 2013
MARKET8 last week announced the endorsements of four key African-American leadership groups for its focus on, prioritization of, and commitment to economic inclusion as a primary goal of its proposed urban entertainment project.
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…
November 22, 2013
While the Shops At Liberty Place is filled with great shoe stores and one of the few locations of The Body Shop outside of Philadelphia International Airport, it’s not usually a place where I have people meet me for lunch.
November 22, 2013
GlaxoSmithKline last week announced the GSK IMPACT Award Winners for the Greater Philadelphia Region at GSK’s facility at The Philadelphia Navy Yard. Seven local nonprofits earned $40,000 each in recognition of their outstanding contributions to a healthier Philadelphia.
November 22, 2013
This holiday season, D. Newlin Fell Elementary School will stage a performance of “Yes, Virginia The Musical,” an original production based on a true story of 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who wrote a letter to the New York Sun newspaper in 1897, inquiring about the existence of Santa Claus.
November 15, 2013
On Sunday, November 17, Scribe Video Center will premiere Philly Drums, a collection of new films produced through the 2013 Documentary History Project for Youth (DHPY). The screening will take place at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is free and open to the public.
November 15, 2013
On Nov. 5, he won a very tight election beating Republican Ned Smith (a 32-year incumbent), and a write-in Democratic candidate, Lisa Austin, with 46 percent of the vote. Horton was told he had lost the election Tuesday night, but by Friday was declared the winner.
November 15, 2013
Pennsylvania’s 500 public school districts have dramatically increased their reliance on disciplinary practices that result in students being removed from school over the past 15 years, creating an educational crisis that goes far beyond the state’s largest school system in Philadelphia, a new study shows.
November 13, 2013
Before she spoke to the 7,000 women gathered for the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Linda Cliatt-Wayman’s audience was introduced to her via a video clip from ABC’s Nightline program. The clip showed Cliatt-Wayman negotiating a day in her life as principal of Strawberry Mansion High School.
November 13, 2013
Last week, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Kevin Hart visited several schools across the City to meet with students, teachers and administrators, whose schools received new laptops from a donation by Hart. In total, he donated 500 computers to the City of Philadelphia and the School District of Philadelphia…
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