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Rev. Gregory Holston of POWER and Minster Rodney Muhammad, President of the Philadelphia NAACP chapter joined us on Your Voice with Solomon Jones this morning. They discussed the day of racial bias training Starbucks provided to its employees this afternoon.
Starbucks was attemping a dramatic move toward racial reconciliation Tuesday as it closed 8,000 stores across the nation for an afternoon of anti-bias training. Up to 180,000 employees at Starbucks stores and at its headquarters are receiving training from a “tool kit” that will “focus on understanding prejudice and the history of public accommodations in the […]
Praise 107.9 FM Host Solomon Jones joins a CNN panel as the news of Roseanne Barr’s firing breaks. Barr’s hit show was canceled by ABC after news of a racist tweet went viral.
Today, “Roseanne” star Roseanne Barr attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarett in a tweet alleging connections to the Muslim Brotherhood that many have called racist. Jarrett, who is African-American with no ties to the Sunni Muslim organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood, was one of most senior and long-term presences in the Obama […]
Two female police officers were among three people killed in Belgium today, when a man stabbed them, took their guns and shot them in what authorities have since deemed a terror attack. Police later shot and killed the gunman, who first fled into a nearby college and took a female hostage. No students were harmed.
For the past week, Sixers star Joel Embiid has been appearing randomly at the South Philly spot taking on challengers in pickup games of street ball. On Memorial Day, Sixers fan Andrew Straitman was walking back to his car from the Acme on South Street around 6 p.m. when he saw about two dozen people […]
Galatians 6:7 says, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” That’s what I thought of when Morgan Freeman, 80, was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and was forced to apologize. But Freeman was not facing criminal charges. Harvey Weinstein is another matter. The movie mogul was arrested […]
All lanes are back open on I-95 after a car fire that delayed traffic from the Cottman Avenue exit to Allegheny for well over an hour due to the incident.. The blaze broke out in the southbound lanes after 6 a.m. Friday near the Allegheny Avenue exit. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Early Friday morning, producer Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to police. Weinstein has been charged on one count of first-degree rape, one count of third-degree rape, one count of sexual act in the first degree. A judge just set Weinstein’s bond at $10 million. He also had to surrender his passport and will wear […]
Civil rights attorney Paul Hetznecker joined us on Your Voice with Solomon Jones to break down the civil rights perspective of the NFL’s new policy where they will crack down on players’ protest. Teams will now be fined if players refuse to stand for the national anthem, giving them the only option to stay in […]
OJ Spivey called into Your Voice with Solomon Jones today to discuss latest on the NFL’s new policy for the national anthem. Without holding a formal vote before passing the anthem policy, the NFL’s policy forbids players from sitting or taking a knee on the field but will allow them to stay in the locker […]
Officers Disciplined In Arrest Of NBA’s Sterling Brown On Wednesday, Milwaukee police released body camera video of the arrest of NBA player Sterling Brown as the department chief apologized for the incident. In the video, an officer meets Brown at the driver’s side door of his car after he walks out of a Walgreens in […]