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• Philadelphia continues long history of Black-led protest meetings aimed at fighting racial inequity and prejudice

  02-03-2025 15:33
  
  Philadelphians attend a meeting at Germantown’s Center in the Park on Feb. 25, 2025, to strategize a new Black agenda. Linn Washington Jr. , CC BY-NC-NDby Linn Washington, Jr., Temple University
  A meeting in Philadelphia, held at a senior center on a bitter cold Saturday afternoon in late January 2025, drew nearly 300 people.
  They came for two key reasons.
  One was to voice outrage at the upsurge in policies and proposals nationwide that attack the advances of African Americans – many
  
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• Southern University Student Dead After Participating In Fraternity Ritual

  02-03-2025 14:00
  
  Photo: Southern University Human Jukebox
  A Southern University student was found dead after participating in a fraternity ritual off campus.
  According to reports, the 20-year-old student, identified as Caleb Wilson, collapsed while members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity were carrying out a ritual where pledges stand in line.
  A group of friends reportedly brought an unresponsive Wilson from North Sherwood Community Park to Baton Rouge General Hospital on Thursday (Februa
  
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• BREAKING Singer Angie Stone Dies in Car Accident at 63

  02-03-2025 01:23
  
  The music and entertainment world reacted in shock and sorrow after the tragic death of Angie Stone, the pioneering singer-songwriter and hip-hop trailblazer who was killed in a car accident early Saturday morning in Montgomery, Alabama. She was 63.
  Stone’s publicist, Deborah R. Champagne, confirmed the devastating news, stating that her family is heartbroken. “A number of her loved ones had just spoken to her last night,” Champagne told TMZ.
  Born Angela Brown, Stone first rose
  
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