Own Tamala Edwards sat down with the two authors of tasting freedom. A book about the life of Octavious Catto a little known philadelphia civil rights activist from the 1800s. Take a look. Authors murray dubin and Daniel Bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a biography about forgotten philadelphia hero octavius catto. He was a civil rights hero at a time in this countrys history when African American civil rights heroes were just not very well known. Catto was born in South Carolina in 1839 and moved to philadelphia at nine years old. Explain during his lifetime what it was like in philadelphia in general when it comes to race. You were unable to vote until 1870. You couldnt sit in a, in a jury. You could not go to the academy of music. You couldnt go to a Public School where white students went. Your job choices were very, very limited. It was a difficult life and your life was in danger on the street both from whites and from people who would want to kidnap you and send you sout
The future is for the unafraid. Im rick williams. And im melisa magee. Tonight its a special visions 2018. Celebrating black History Month meet temples first Rhodes Scholar. See how the sixers are spending their summer. And from mastering money to meditation, see how several black Business Owners are making their mark welcome to tonights show. Were here at uncle bobbies coffee and books in germantown. Its owned by professor, author and activist dr. Marc lamont hill. You might recognize him from some of the cable news shows they have a little light fare food, coffee from local brand la colombe. Plus a vast array of titles by and about people of color. And speaking of books, our own Tamala Edwards sat down with the two authors of tasting freedom. A book about the life of Octavious Catto a little known philadelphia civil rights activist from the 1800s. Take a look. Authors murray dubin and Daniel Bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a biography about forgotten philadelphia hero octav
Alarm to clear the themed our coverage of the Movie Theater shooting continues on our web side 6abc. Com with updates on the investigation. We also have gallery of images including pictures of the gunman victims and more details on that hero teach here shielded her friend from a bullet. Philadelphia Police Identified the man suspected of killing a recent graduate of Drexel University. 56yearold james harris is accused of murdering Jasmine Wright. Wright was found beaten and strangled in her amount last week. Police say harris had been fired from his maintenance job at wrights building. He is described as a career criminal who has been locked up 31 times. Action News Reporter vern odom was at this afternoons announcement by police and hell have much more on harris and how police connector him to the crime coming up tonight at 6 00. Several families in Camden County are without a home this evening after a fire ripped through a townhome. Chopper 6hd was overhead as flames shot through the
Even off the field. One of the difficulties obviously with trading a guy like cole hamels is what hes meant to our organization over the years. You know, when we have players that are home grown, guys that we drafted, it was a tremendous draft we developed him, he developed himself he made himself the player that he was. Hamels was certainly one of the best. Now hamels is the biggest name move by the phillies but hes not the latest name moved by phillies. Well talk more about that coming up next hour. Were live at Citizens Bank park im Ducis Rodgers channel6 action news. Brian and sharrie back to you. Ducis thank you. Big departure. Yeah. Time for a check of the forecast. Melissa magee in for adam joseph this afternoon. Shes wisely decided to be outside and for good reason. Yeah, you said it. Its hot pretty warm but the good news is the humidity is low as we close out our work week on this friday. Check out the numbers across the delaware and lehigh valleys. It is 90 here in philadelph
Just, you know, stay down and then we heard like about another six or seven shots pop, pop pop. Then we heard a car drive off. Reporter multiple cars and homes were hit in what seems to have been a running gun battle because the bullets appear to have been coming from opposite directions. The vaughn family was startled from their sleep as well. We were sleeping and all of a sudden we heard this pop pop pop pop and i yelled to my husband, dottler . Whats going on and he said he didnt know. Next thing you know we just heard the neighbors car windows smash. I heard the shots ring out but i thought it was just some fireworks left over from the fourth that people were shooting off. [laughter] this late in the month. Yes, even this late in the month. Reporter police have assigned this case to the special investigations unit. For don rosario these remain troubling times. Im frustrated. Im upset. I dont know what else to say. Reporter police tell me their investigation is going full tilt at th