Embiid (L) Maxey (R) Combine For 69 In Loss Photo: Special to the NY Beacon By Shara Talia Taylor The Philadelphia 76ers were within seconds of winning, but after a few missteps they fell to the New York Knicks in a 104-101 loss for game […]
A Philadelphia mother and her boyfriend are facing charges in connection to the death of her child, who was reported missing by a family member late last month, reports said. Authorities started to look into the disappearance of 4-year-old Damari Carter after receiving a report on Saturday, […]
A former Starbucks regional manager was just awarded $25.6 million after she was fired from her job following the arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia store five years ago in a case that set a categorical example of racial profiling and implicit bias. […]
Conswuella Africa thought she’d laid her daughter, Katricia Dotson, to rest decades ago. The fourteen year-old had been killed in the tragic Philadelphia MOVE bombing and, until recently, it seemed her remains had been buried alongside the other victims. That is, until reports began to circulate that her remains were actually being […]
The cause of the fire has not been determined A fire ripped through a rowhome in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia and killed eight children and four adults on Wednesday morning in what local reports are calling the deadliest fire in the city in […]
Source: Mike James, Brian Stukes, Patricia McDougal and Earl Gibson / Urban One Inc. On Saturday (October 2), WOL News Talk 1450 in Washington D.C. celebrated its 41st anniversary – a moment which showcased the perseverance and tenacity of its founder, Urban One maven Cathy Hughes. […]
A Black woman who was separated from her toddler son during a violent arrest last year will receive $2 million from the city of Philadelphia. During the October 2020 arrest, Rickia Young was bloodied then taken to jail, and separated from her son as the city dealt […]
On a flight from Philadelphia that landed at Miami International Airport at about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, what began as an annoyance became an argument when “the N-word” was uttered. Then the situation quickly devolved into a physical altercation. According to a woman who recorded the melee, […]
By Mark Anthony Neal Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas and Deb Willis Styled by Alex Harrington PATTI LABELLE’S superpower is a spellbinding scream — a refined shriek, really — that makes hairs stand at attention, bones shiver and spines twist. It was 1975 when I first heard it. I […]
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer In a long-overdue act of accepting responsibility, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chose to own up to massacring a Black neighborhood 35 years ago. Any Black American person who is old enough traumatically remembers the May 13, […]
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