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Commission will provide recommendations to City Council about improvements for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Viaduct.

NFL 'will play the black national anthem 'Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing' before the Star Spangled Banner at its 2021 season games' The NFL plans to play 'Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing,' traditionally referred to as the Black national anthem, will be performed before 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' The song is expected to play during the season opener on Sept. 10, when the Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans Comes as the league hopes to demonstrate 'a genuine commitment to the public, players and coaches and that player voices continue to be heard,' In June, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell admitted...

Till Victory Is Won Sandra Evers Manly (Courtesy Photo) As I examine Black History Month 2021, and what may be accomplished during the shortest month of the year, I am reminded of a special song that continues to motivate generations since the late 1890’s. First commissioned as a poem, “Life Every Voice and Sing” was written by James Weldon Johnson, Principal of the segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Florida. It was then set to music in 1905 by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson a composer who trained at the New England Conservatory of Music. These influential and talented brothers...

South Philly Review After years of planning, SOSNA’s school safety project could come to fruition this summer The Safe Pathways to Our Schools Project is a continuation of previous efforts to alter the intersections, including a 2018 effort to apply for a city “slow zone,” which was the city’s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability’s attempt to install traffic-calming measures in various neighborhoods around the city. The intersection at 17th and Christian near E.M. Stanton School. | Photo by Google Maps. Several of the intersections near Chest...

Members of Sister Thea Bowman, Servant of God, Mass Choir sing during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 16, 2020, at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, N.Y.(CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) As a child I stood, hand on heart, pledging allegiance to the flag and singing about “bombs bursting in air.” I can never remember which lines come first in our national anthem: “gallantly streaming” or “twilight’s last gleaming”? While these patriotic customs may be more contentious these days I find them valuable, especially now as an adult. I worry about losing the ...