Category : Lifestyle

Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 hours ago

Building Philadelphia for the Next 100 Mayors

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — This year, 2023, is a major year in Philadelphia politics. We will be electing our 100th mayor who will lead and steer our diverse and unique city over the next four years. This mayor, possibly Philadelphia’s first A...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 hours ago

Letters to the Editor

A stand-up guy By 1944, only five African Americans had ever enrolled in the U.S. Naval Academy. Subjected to continual harassment, none lasted longer than a year. In 1945, African American Wesley A. Brown enrolled in Annapolis and was subjected...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 hours ago

Black Resilience: Trauma to Triumph Since 1619

By Sonny Messiah Jiles | Word In Black Credit: Illustration by Demis Courquet-Lesaulnier via Wikimedia Commons/Adobe Stock (WIB) – As we acknowledge the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the 1963 bombing of 16th Street...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 hours ago

Medical Debt: The Price of Life

By Anissa Durham | Word In Black Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko/ Pexels. (WIB) – The healthcare system is one of the only transactions you make without knowing the price of your purchase. Whether you have health insurance or not, most Ameri...