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Philly.com- For more than two years, dozens of victims have filed into a secret grand jury room in Pennsylvania, faced a group of strangers, and recounted how they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests, their rapes and molestation buried by church leaders. One, a former Erie priest who testified that he was molested […]
CBS 3- When it comes to tourism in the Philadelphia region, business is booming. Visit Philadelphia says a record-breaking 43 million people visited Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties last year. That’s a three percent increase from 2016 and the eighth straight year there’s been a record number of visitors here. All of those visitors […]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday split 3-3 on whether Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Genece Brinkley should remain on Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill’s gun-and-drug case, leaving Brinkley to preside over his post-conviction appeal. She is scheduled to hear an evidentiary hearing in the case Monday. In their order, the justices wrote that with “the […]
The Philadelphia Police Department announced a new policy of de-escalating confrontations with individuals accused of defiant trespassing on private business property.
Solomon Jones sat down after the show to talk about the issue of stop-and-frisk. This weekend marks the 50-year anniversary of Terry v. Ohio, the Supreme Court decision that held the Fourth Amendment in the confrontation on the street between the citizen and the policeman investigating suspicious circumstances. Solomon hopes the partnership with The Philadelphia […]
Solomon Jones – A black man was beaten by cops in Mesa Arizona, and once again, the whole thing was caught on video. And since I’m all out of outrage for a scene that’s all to common, I looked back on something I once said to a room full of black cops, because in reality, there’s […]
Solomon Jones and Praise 107.9 have partnered with the Philadelphia Inquirer to bring light to the injustice surrounding the issue of stop-and-frisk. This morning on Your Voice with Solomon Jones callers told of their personal experiences with stop-and-frisk. In the video above, Terrance Battle, also known as T-Storm of Radio One Philadelphia tells his experience with […]
Philly.com- The 76ers’ president Bryan Colangelo is out following unethical behavior involving secret Twitter accounts. Colangelo was not at the Sixers facility on Thursday, a day after sources said he was spotted at pre-draft workouts. The team’s owners are expected to be in town. https://twitter.com/realScottSauer/status/1004756325748891648 https://twitter.com/anita_oh/status/1004758653671534593 The move came after a New York law firm hired by […]
Philly.com- It’s not just black people, but entire, predominantly black, neighborhoods that are disproportionately impacted by the Philadelphia Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk. That’s a key finding of a new analysis of police data from 2014 to 2015 by Lance Hannon, a Villanova professor of sociology and criminology who began analyzing publicly available police data in […]
Bishop RT Jones joined us on Your Voice to talk the upcoming Prayer For The City 3, its purpose and meaning for the city of Philadelphia.
Solomon Jones- Donald Trump is again using patriotism as a prop, and this time the Eagles are unwitting co-stars in his political theater. The trouble began when fewer than 10 members of the Eagles‘ Super Bowl-winning team opted visit the president at the White House. In a response worthy of a nine-year-old, Trump uninvited the team, […]
Roosevelt Elementary School assistant principal Alonzo Fulton joined us on Your Voice with Solomon Jones to talk about how to keep our children safe during the summer.