Education

The SIHLE Project (Sisters Informing Healing Living & Empowering) is looking for a small group of teen African American girls (ages 14 to 18) to participate in a free workshop, 4 days after school beginning October 21st. The complete dates are 10/21, 10/23, 10/28, 10/30 from 4pm to 7pm. Girls will receive 12 hours of […]

Courtesy of Vibe Dot Com No, the title of the story is not a typo!  Drake’s famous acronym that he dubbed in his song The Motto, Y.O.L.O. (You Only Live Once) is making the rounds in the field of education.  Prospective students at Tufts University in Boston are being asked as a  part of the college […]

Polls in Pennsylvania open at 7:00 a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m. Registered voters who are in line at 8:00 p.m. will be allowed to vote. The new PA law called Voter Photo ID will go into effect in the November Presidential election. At the April 24 Primary, you will not have to have photo […]

View more than forty works by Vincent van Gogh—never before seen together—during Van Gogh Up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Hours & Tickets Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday: 11 a.m. – 8:45 p.m. Weekend: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Extended weekend hours until 6 p.m. from April 7 – […]

It’s getting a little more expensive to have a Starbucks habit. The Seattle-based coffee company (SBUX) said Tuesday that it would hike prices by an average of 1% in the Northeast and Sunbelt regions, where prices haven’t been raised in roughly five years. Starbucks is following the lead of other food companies, including McDonald’s and […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities call it a hate crime by two white teens against a middle-aged black man, “murder by physically assaulting and purposefully using a 1998 Ford F-250 to run over James Craig Anderson.” Defense lawyers insist the incident had nothing to do with race. One of the teen’s attorneys said the group […]

VIA: The School District of Philadelphia Due to the inclement weather, all School District of Philadelphia schools and administrative offices will be closed on Thursday, January 27th. Updated information will also be posted on the District’s Information Hotline at 215-400-INFO (4636).

“The Wire,” the old HBO series is the topic of a new class at Johns Hopkins University, in the city where the crime series was based. The class was introduced this semester and uses the Baltimore show as a way to look at the problems big cities in America face. Guest speakers have included former […]

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