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Kermit Gosnell, 72, has  been found guilty on three counts of four counts of first-degree murder. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)

Race a factor in Philly women's clinic trial

David A. Love
OPINION - Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of running a house of horrors. And we can all agree that the crimes for which he is accused are horrific, gruesome and unspeakable...
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In this July 26, 1937 file photo, police escort two of the five recently freed "Scottsboro Boys," Olen Montgomery, wearing glasses, third left, and Eugene Williams, wearing suspenders, forth left through the crowd greeting them upon their arrival at Penn Station in New York. In a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday, April 4, 2013, to give posthumous pardons to the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women in 1931. (AP Photo, File)

What infamous civil rights cases need closure?

David A. Love
OPINION - America’s civil rights history evokes a sense of pride and accomplishment, given the hard-fought battles waged in the courtroom and in the streets, and those who were maimed and martyred in the process...
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Man taunts woman after rape: 'I just gave you HIV'

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VIDEO - Philadelphia police are searching for a violent rapist who taunted his victim by saying 'Ha-ha, I just gave you HIV' after assaulting her...
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Jay-Z smiles in between interviews, after a news conference at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Monday, May 14, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philly gets ready to host Jay-Z's music megashow

Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
(AP) - The city where America was made is gearing up for rapper Jay-Z's "Made In America" music festival, which officials estimate will attract 100,000 fans to Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend...
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Could a PA voter ID law hurt Obama?

David A. Love
theGRIO REPORT - A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of people from casting ballots in a state President Obama essentially must win to be re-elected...
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PHILADELPHIA, PA - Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

Nutter was named president of US Conference of Mayors

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PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Michael Nutter has been named 70th president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors...
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