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A Hope That Lights The Way lifts up hometown heroes across the city who are changing the gun violence narrative PHILADELPHIA – This evening, the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement (OPE), with creative direction from the Mayor’s Office of Black Male Engagement (OBME), will host the Night of Hope Gala and premiere the documentary A Hope […]
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday. Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the […]
James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famous 1871 oil on canvas was actually conceived as “an experiment in color.” It’s called Arrangement in Gray and Black No.1: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. Jean Schormans/RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource NY hide caption toggle caption Jean Schormans/RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource NY James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famous 1871 oil […]
Austin FC announced today the Club has acquired defender Brandan Craig via an intraleague loan from Philadelphia Union. Craig joins the Verde & Black through the end of the 2023 Major League Soccer (MLS) season. In exchange, Philadelphia receives Austin’s natural third round pick in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft and may also receive up to $125,000 […]
Just over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, 15 sailors assigned to the U.S.S. Philadelphia wrote a letter to a Black newspaper detailing the abuse and indignities they had faced on the warship solely because of the color of their skin. When they enlisted, the Navy had promised training and assignments that would […]
Visuals showed flames and billowing smoke coming from the crumbled section Washington: A fire caused part of a busy US highway overpass to collapse in Philadelphia early Sunday, authorities said, as reports attributed the accident to an oil tanker that burst into flames under the bridge. The collapse took out four traffic lanes along an […]
The City of Philadelphia is joining cities across the nation in honoring June as Gun Violence Awareness Month. What is Gun Violence Awareness Month? Established in 2015, Gun Violence Awareness Month is acknowledged annually by cities, towns, and communities nationwide. Launched on the first Friday of every June, this year the month is commemorated on […]
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: urbazon / Getty Philadelphia is known as the ‘city of brotherly love and sisterly affection’ but we are also known to have an edgy side as well. Philadelphians are passionate people. Passionate about our music, passionate about our community, and passionate about our sports. Sometimes that passion is […]
Angelica Lyons knew it was dangerous for Black women to give birth in America. As a public health instructor, she taught college students about racial health disparities, including the fact that Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race. Her home state […]