Our partners at Bethune Elementary in North Philadelphia, Principle Jamina Clay-Dingle and her staff, are being recognized for their efforts to recruit black men at Bethune. In comparison to a national average of 2%, about 30% of Bethune’s teachers are African-American men. Read more here. (Photo credit: NBC News)
Read MoreBy Jacob Adelman “For years, the Liberty Motel at Germantown Avenue and Westmoreland Street was a magnet for drug use and prostitution in the North Philadelphia neighborhood served by the Lenfest Center, a hub of educational and athletic programming for area teens and children. Now the center has closed down the motel after buying the property, with…
Read MoreNorth Philly students ‘lost for words’ after seeing themselves in ‘Black Panther’ It’s field trip day at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in North Philadelphia and the hallways are packed with 273 kids getting ready to board buses. But the students are not going to the museum or the zoo. They’re going to the movies…
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