A shocking turn of events has turned the City of Brotherly Love upside down. The Huffington Post is reporting that several 4th grade boys tried to rape a younger boy at school: “The victim was an 8-year-old male classmate, whom the three allegedly attacked in a bathroom at West Philadelphia’s Bryant Elementary School.” The community […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wall Street protest encampments were largely intact in Los Angeles and Philadelphia on Monday, hours after deadlines for demonstrators to clear out passed without the acrimony that marked forced evictions in other cities. See also: Don’t Be Afraid of People in Tents — Learn From Them See also: These Numbers Don’t Lie Protesters […]
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is showing some brotherly love to hometown band The Roots. See Also: Black Travel: Visit Phoenix, Arizona See Also: Black Travel: Visit Memphis, Tennessee Officials announced Monday that the Grammy-winning hip-hop group will be the subject of a mural in the city. The eight-month project will include a storefront art studio and […]
Police rescued eight children from a Philadelphia home where four mentally handicapped adults were found chained in a cellar, according to Newser.com.
PHILADELPHIA — In the end, the scene looked straight out of an ultimate Broadway encore. One and two owners on the stage turned into seven, eight, nine, all single file and holding enough personalized 76ers jerseys to fill a few racks at the merchandise store. All that was missing was a bow. The Philadelphia 76ers […]
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police say they have made a fourth arrest in a horrific case in which four mentally disabled people were found locked up in a basement, allegedly so their captors could cash their Social Security checks.
Four malnourished mentally disabled adults were found chained to a boiler in a Philadelphia, PA basement.
Police are searching for a man who they say stole $10,000 worth of merchandise from a Philadelphia K-Mart. The man allegedly disabled the alarm and stole video game systems, laptops and televisions before fleeing in an unknown direction. VIDEO: Read more at theGrio.com RELATED: Cornel West: “Cain Needs To Get Off The Symbolic Crackpipe”
The 16th anniversary of the Million Man March will be held in Philadelphia on the weekend of Oct. 7-9. RELATED: Obama Campaign Launches Website To Address Unfounded Smears Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will commemorate the occasion by giving a keynote address. The effort will focus on hunger, street violence and political accountability, BET.com reports. […]
A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania woman says that a police officer sexually assaulted her in his squad car, after offering her a ride home. The woman who was described as being in her 30s, says Keith Corley II, 27, dropped her off at a nearby train station after the attack. TheGrio.com reports: Investigators gathered DNA from the […]
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has extended the city’s juvenile curfew, the mayor’s office announced Tuesday. The curfew, which has been in effect since Aug.12, was instituted in response to a string of mob attacks by young people who gathered using text messages and social media to alert one another. The 9 p.m. curfew is in […]
The body of a recent Temple University graduate who was reported missing Friday was found in the Delaware River in New Jersey Monday morning, police say. Roswell Friend, the 22-year-old who was a member of Temple’s track team, was found dead by the New Jersey State Police marine unit in the Delaware River in Riverton, […]
