Thursday Nights at 9: Online Town Hall Meetings To Inspire Black Civic Engagement
ColorOfChange.org is hosting the series of Twitter Townhalls beginning at 9pm each Thursday, during the commercial breaks of "Scandal."
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ColorOfChange.org is hosting the series of Twitter Townhalls beginning at 9pm each Thursday, during the commercial breaks of "Scandal."
Dom Giordano talked with Gabriel Williams, the Minister of the Liberian Consulate, on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about confronting the Ebola crisis.
As panic over Ebola spreads in some areas of this country, many African immigrants living in Philadelphia say public ignorance about the continent and the disease has led to misdirected Ebola stigma and discrimination.
It's not even Halloween, but already retailers are trying to win your holiday shopping dollars with promises of bargains that rival Black Friday's.
This year, dealing with the deadly and contagious disease of Ebola is on everyone's mind.
A Philadelphia-based theology professor says the bishops, , despite their statement about welcoming gays, aren't proposing any change in Catholic doctrine on homosexuality at this time.
She'll appear Wednesday morning at the Emanuel Recreation Center, 8500 Pickering Avenue, in Mt. Airy.
"It's a disease that the US has prepared for -- it has an excellent acute-care system to treat patients," said Dr. Robert Fowler.
Twitter, the social media firm, is suing the FBI and the US Department of Justice in an effort to get so-called "transparency reports" declassified.
"I think what is portrayed on social media is more accurate than what is portrayed on traditional media," says Melody Wong, a Philadelphia native who grew up in Hong Kong.
Public hospitals in New York City are concerned enough about Ebola that they've secretly been sending actors with mock symptoms into emergency rooms to test how well the triage staffs identify and isolate possible cases.
The event was sponsored by Women Against Abuse.
Facebook has fulfilled its promise to meet with leaders of the gay and lesbian community after the enforcement of the social media behemoth's "real names only" policy led to the suspension of several drag queens' accounts.
A report released by Amtrak says they would need to close each Hudson River tunnel for at least a year to make repairs.
"We women have a really bad habit, ladies, of taking care of everybody else first, and ourselves last," she said.
