Philly NAACP

Celebrated trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was in town last week performing “The Ballad of the American Arts” at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts for the opening of Jazz Appreciation Month.

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A slain Florida teenager and the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed him exchanged words before the teen punched him in the nose and began banging the man’s head on the ground, according to the watch captain’s account of the confrontation that led to the shooting.

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With each passing day, there seems to be a new set of developments in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. Here are the latest: A video of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch captain who shot Trayvon shows that there were no discernable bruises on him when he was first brought into the Sanford PD.

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The father of 28-year-old George Zimmerman is speaking out in his son’s defense. Robert Zimmerman of Lake Mary, Fla., wrote a letter last week to The Orlando Sentinel calling the depiction of his son in the media “cruel and misleading.”

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Rev. James Hall will be celebrating 60 years in the ministry and 42 years in the pulpit of the great Triumph Baptist Church. He is a true civil rights pioneer, great clergyman, great teacher, father and husband and one of the significant leaders of Philadelphia for the last half century.

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I have spent the past week with Troy’s family. He wanted the world to know that he understood that this struggle goes beyond just one man. Troy was prepared to die tonight. As he said again and again, the state of Georgia only held the power to take his physical body.

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Today, nearly a quarter of all Democratic voters say they are dissatisfied with the results of Obama I, according to a CNN poll broadcast last Tuesday. If this continues through the Christmas season, the chances for Obama II will hardly worth a $2 bet.

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African-Americans once were clustered so heavily in urban areas that the terms “black” and “inner city” came to be used almost synonymously. According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, that time is history.

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Many of you are likely to stay home Tuesday, May 17, 2011. That’s because without the usual blizzard of television commercials associated with big ticket races, like the contest for mayor, few seem interested in following the debate. This is regrettable.

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It’s 2011 starting point of the second decade of a new century. Democracy is breaking out in parts of globe where most rational people just a year ago had no clue ordinary citizens would risk their lives to march unarmed in their streets demanding their entrenched dictators give up power.

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