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October 29, 2011
Local filmmaker Rel Dowdell’s “Changing the Game” is one of the featured stories to be shown at this weekend’s 10th Hollywood Black Film Festival in Beverly Hills.
October 23, 2011
Mayor Michael A. Nutter announced this week that Everett Gillison, formerly Deputy Mayor for Public Safety will be his new Chief of Staff. Suzanne Biemiller, who served as Interim Chief of Staff, will assume the position of First Deputy Chief of Staff.
October 23, 2011
With the School District of Philadelphia preparing to unveil its plans to close fiumerous schools. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative released a new report, Closing Public Schools in Philadelphia…
October 14, 2011
Philadelphia prosecutors must pursue a second death-penalty sentence for convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal or accept a life sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the racially charged case.
October 14, 2011
Mayor Michael A. Nutter has appointed Lorene Cary, a respected novelist, educator and founder of Art Sanctuary, a community arts organization that showcases African American art, to the School Reform Commission, [SRC].
October 14, 2011
Pennsylvania’s distressed capital city filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, citing “imminent jeopardy” from lawsuits related to a debt-saddled municipal incinerator and setting up a power struggle between the mayor and City Council.
October 14, 2011
In the 20 years that I’ve been a reporter, I’ve written probably a lot of obituaries. And with most of them, after I’ve written all of the standard information, I usually ask the question of the family of the deceased: “If there were anything that you would want people to know about your loved one, what would that be?”
October 14, 2011
Several hundred people are continuing to protest in downtown Philadelphia as part of the ongoing effort to demonstrate against corporate influence on politics.
October 14, 2011
The Corbett Administration’s education plan misses the mark by focusing on tuition vouchers and expansion of charter schools, which could undermine vital support for the public schools attended by nearly 90 percent of the state’s school children, according to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
October 9, 2011
The Philadelphia Housing Authority formally opened the award-winning Mantua Square at 35th Street and Fairmount Avenue in West Philadelphia today as part of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) “Housing America” month celebration.
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