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October 23, 2011
The case came to light Saturday when landlord Turgut Gozleveli discovered the victims after he heard dogs barking. The door to the basement room was chained shut, but Gozleveli got inside and lifted a pile of blankets to find several sets of eyes staring back at him.
October 23, 2011
The month-old Occupy Wall Street movement enjoyed its new momentum Monday, with nearly $300,000 in the bank and the satisfaction of drawing global attention to what it sees as major economic inequalities.
October 14, 2011
Two weeks of NBA games are lost. Many more could be in jeopardy. There’s a “gulf” that separates owners and players, and they will have to close it quickly to avoid further damage to the schedule.
October 14, 2011
For unemployment and poverty rates to go down in the African American community, it’s time for Blacks to stop asking the government for a jobs plan and create one for themselves with the help of people like BET founder Bob Johnson, media mogul Oprah Winfrey and others.
October 14, 2011
Otis D. Hackney III, Principal of South Philadelphia High School was honored on Monday October, 3 at the 17th Annual Barrymore Awards at the Walnut Street Theatre. Hackney, accompanied by students from South Philadelphia High School who opened the awards show with an excerpt from We Write South Philly…
October 9, 2011
The protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District for more than two weeks eat donated food and keep their laptops running with a portable gas-powered generator. They have a newspaper — the Occupied Wall Street Journal — and a makeshift hospital.
October 9, 2011
Black transgender and gender non-conforming people face some of the highest levels of discrimination of all transgender people according to a new analysis recently released, Injustice at Every Turn: A Look at Black Respondents in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.
October 2, 2011
In a fiery summons to an important voting bloc, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
October 2, 2011
“I, Thaddeus Kirkland, do not speak for the Chester Upland School District admin. Let me be clear on that. However I do believe that I speak for the teachers, parents, children, educational support staff, the security services, maintenance workers and all those whose lives have been altered dramatically by…
September 23, 2011
The mother of a murdered police officer reacted with caution when she got the news Tuesday morning that the state Board of Pardons and Paroles had declined to commute the death sentence of Troy Anthony Davis, the man condemned for killing her son.
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