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Yeah, I’m talking to you, Zoe Saldana. After bouncing your pom-poms in “Drumline,” soaring above the enchanted forest in “Avatar,” and making whoopie with a young Mr. Spock in the last “Star Trek,” you clearly have earned your stripes as Hollywood’s latest soft cocoa-toned ingénue.

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Not only was Ali the greatest inside the ring, but as a man who took an unpopular stand based on principle and at the risk of losing millions of dollars, he transcended boxing in a way that no athlete ever has in the history of sports.

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In this most contentious election year, one proposition looms not at all contentious: few disagree that America faces a host of imposing challenges–both foreign and domestic. But while we clearly recognize the formidable nature of those challenges we utterly fail to understand that it is our…

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The six remaining justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of the Commonwealth’s Voter ID law, which is scheduled to go into affect Monday. Lawyers from both sides of the issue came before Chief Justice Ron Castille, and Justices…

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Let’s say it clearly. The Democrats had a good convention, one clearly reflected in a respectable post-convention bounce – the Republicans, not so much. Not that the GOP had a really bad or a dreadful convention. In truth, it had its moments. As conventions go, however, mediocre would describe it best.

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If there were a theme for this week’s Democratic Na-tional Convention in Charlotte, N.C., it would have to be the Lena Horne classic “Stormy Weather”…not only because of the torrential downpours that have met convention goers as they move through town dur-ing the day, but…

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City Controller Alan Butkovitz today released the FY2011 School District of Philadelphia Report on Internal Control and Compliance that found the student TransPass program was at risk for theft and abuse, resulting in the potential loss of millions annually.

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As those of you who follow Reelblack on social media are already aware, my grandmother, Helen Frances Dennis, made her transition Sunday afternoon, September 2, 2012 around 1PM. She was 94 years old.

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Mayor Michael A. Nutter said that the Budweiser Made in America Festival is already producing significant benefits for the City of Philadelphia noting that the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association is reporting a considerable increase in rooms booked this Labor Day weekend.

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The Pennsylvania NAACP has teamed up with HeadCount, a nonpartisan voter registration organization, to register voters at the “Made in America” Festival taking place in Philadelphia on September 1st and 2nd.

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