Scoop USA Newspaper
Community College of Philadelphia and Prime Healthcare Pennsylvania Region announce new health care education partnership
Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) and Prime Healthcare Pennsylvania Region announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will enhance education and career opportunities for healthcare students at the College.
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ScoopUSA, Volume 65 - Number 31
Scoop USA Newspaper
Egypt Sherrod, 'Married to Real Estate' host is from Philly
Egypt Sherrod has made a name for herself as a radio/television personality, and along with her husband, Mike Jackson, the duo rose to stardom with their show, “Married to Real Estate.” They grabbed the audience's attention renovating fixer-uppers into their clients' dream homes.
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ScoopUSA, Volume 65 - Number 31
Scoop USA Newspaper
Department of State introduces redesigned, user-friendly provisional ballot envelopes
Continuing the Shapiro Administration's commitment to strengthening our democracy and keeping our elections safe and secure, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced that the Department of State has redesigned the provisional ballot envelopes that counties use in an effort to improve legibility and make the envelope more user-friendly.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24
Scoop USA Newspaper
PA House approves Cephas bill to protect older homeowners
This week, the PA House of Representatives passed legislation sponsored by state Rep. Morgan Cephas, D-Phila., to protect homeowners from unknowingly losing their home and generational wealth. Senior citizens and other homeowners on a fixed income often refinance their homes utilizing a reverse mortgage based on the benefit of an immediate financial gain without fully understanding the long-term outcome of the agreement.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24
Scoop USA Newspaper
Trump's magnet of malevolence
The conventional explanation for why Trump's second term is far more extreme than his first (which was extreme enough) is that the guardrails are now gone.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24
Scoop USA Newspaper
Is the Jeffrey Epstein scandal finally behind us? Don't bet on it
When a reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on Tuesday, President Trump could not contain himself a moment longer.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24
Scoop USA Newspaper
Praise and Worship
A father with two sons
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 24
New York Amsterdam News
2 dead in New Jersey after floodwaters carry away vehicle during heavy rains that hit Northeast
Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in floodwaters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities said Tuesday.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
America is a survivor of gender-based violence. Congress must act now to stop her abuser.
As a longtime advocate against gender-based violence, it is clear to me that America is a battered woman, and President Donald Trump is her abuser. Congress must do its job to stop him and secure the safety of this country and its people.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Berkshires-based forum pays homage to civil rights leader and NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois
In 1916 and again in 1933, W.E.B. Du Bois and Joel Elias Spingarn gathered thinkers and leaders in Amenia, New York at the Troutbeck estate.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Caricom heads to British final court for opinion on slavery, reparations
Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations, led by Jamaica, are tweaking their approach to demands for reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade by moving to ask Britain's final court whether it thinks slavery was lawful.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Sister's Uptown, a bookstore worth saving
There was a time when Black-owned bookstores were like a lodestone to the movement, particularly in the halcyon sixties.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
A federal program helps NYC families eat healthy meals. Trump's new legislation cuts it.
On a sweltering afternoon this week, Ana Garcia, 41, and her 3-year-old son, Elliott, arrived at the Goodhue Community Center on Staten Island to pick up their weekly haul of fresh, affordable produce.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
2026 New York Fiscal Budget brings new initiatives
The New York City Council approved their 2026 fiscal budget this past weekend.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
The Big Beautiful Bill and its effects on college students
President Donald Trump's second term in office has been nothing short of tumultuous.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Grammy nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria & Ascensión provide danceable pathway to cultural connection
On an unassuming side street in the thick of midtown Manhattan, dog walkers, lucky passersby and workers on their lunch hour gathered at Worldwide Plaza on July 10 to take in the sounds of Grammy nominated percussionist and educator, Bobby Sanabria who brought his latest Latin-jazz outfit, Ascensión, to the square for two energetic midday sets.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Why James Gunn's ‘Superman' soars: A hopeful reboot for a new era
Everyone knows Superman's story — or at least thinks they do: The baby from Krypton, the Kansas farm, the secret identity, the cape.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
F1: The Movie' has the fuel and formula for success
It's a Tom Cruise kinda movie, but it stars Brad Pitt. He's the protagonist in this tale about an aging, washed-up race car driver who everyone's counted out, except for a dear friend and the driver himself: \"If the last thing I ever do is drive that car, I will take that life, man, 1000 times.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
'Ella' review, Sista's Place, Jazz in July
The whisper of America’s greatest song stylist Ella Fitzgerald’s name strikes a kinetic force — you want to move, dance, swing.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
HBCU's Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference holds its third flag football clinic
On Sunday, July 20, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), a Division I conference of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, will host MEAC Girls on the Gridiron Football Clinic for the third consecutive year. After two years at Norfolk State University in Virginia, this year’s event will be held on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Some of the world's best in beach volleyball will compete at Central Park
This weekend, some of the top beach volleyball players in the world will compete at Wollman Rink, thanks to its transformation with 300 tons of sand trucked into Central Park.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Brooklyn's Edgar Berlanga and Amanda Serrano have tough losses in NYC
Two high-profile fights took place last weekend in New York City at separate locations, with two popular hometown boxers taking losses.
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July 17, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
HBCU Swingman Classic provides showcase for Black MLB hopefuls
Rain couldn't stop Major League Baseball's historically Black party on Friday night.
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July 17, 2025
Scoop USA Newspaper
"Good Trouble Lives On” National Day of Action builds on momentum against authoritarianism, Fight for Civil Rights
— On July 17, five years since the passing of civil rights hero Congressman John Lewis, communities nationwide are mobilizing for Good Trouble Lives On, a national day of action to speak out against the Trump administration's brazen rollback of our civil rights.
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ScoopUSA Media, Volume 65 - Number 30
Scoop USA Newspaper
Chester Safe Summers a rousing success with our community's children
Chester City decided to be proactive when it comes to curbing the nuisance behaviors and violence that’s plagued our society's youth in recent years, especially following the global pandemic.
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ScoopUSA Media, Volume 65 - Number 29
Scoop USA Newspaper
Millie and Christine McKoy
Millie and Christine (the \"Carolina Twins\") were born on July 11, 1851, in Whiteville, North Carolina, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy, who Jabez McKay enslaved.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 23
Scoop USA Newspaper
Negotiations continue in Philadelphia as thousands of city workers strike over wages, work conditions
Negotiations continued Wednesday on the second day of a strike by nearly 10,000 city workers in Philadelphia--while a judge ordered some emergency service dispatchers and essential water department employees back to work.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 21
Scoop USA Newspaper
Comedy and crime fighting join forces for police learning leadership skills
Three dozen police captains pair off in a Chicago conference room to play a game: They must start a sentence with the last word their partner used.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 21
Scoop USA Newspaper
House passes disastrous bill that will skyrocket pollution and the cost of living
The U.S. House of Representatives passed their so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the most disastrous environmental legislation the country has seen in modern history. The regressive policies it has made law will reverse years of progress in fighting the climate crisis and make the planet less livable by dealing a devastating blow to clean energy.
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ScoopUSA Media, Volume 65 - Number 29
Scoop USA Newspaper
Better days are ahead: Choosing hope in a complicated world
Life. It's a word that carries the weight of our experiences—our triumphs and failures, our moments of clarity and confusion, our joy and pain. For many of us, life feels like a winding road with unpredictable twists, turns, and hills we never expected to climb.
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