Own Tamala Edwards sat down with the two authors of tasting freedom. A book about the life of Octavious Catto a little known philadelphia civil rights activist from the 1800s. Take a look. Authors murray dubin and Daniel Bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a biography about forgotten philadelphia hero octavius catto. He was a civil rights hero at a time in this countrys history when African American civil rights heroes were just not very well known. Catto was born in South Carolina in 1839 and moved to philadelphia at nine years old. Explain during his lifetime what it was like in philadelphia in general when it comes to race. You were unable to vote until 1870. You couldnt sit in a, in a jury. You could not go to the academy of music. You couldnt go to a Public School where white students went. Your job choices were very, very limited. It was a difficult life and your life was in danger on the street both from whites and from people who would want to kidnap you and send you sout
The future is for the unafraid. Im rick williams. And im melisa magee. Tonight its a special visions 2018. Celebrating black History Month meet temples first Rhodes Scholar. See how the sixers are spending their summer. And from mastering money to meditation, see how several black Business Owners are making their mark welcome to tonights show. Were here at uncle bobbies coffee and books in germantown. Its owned by professor, author and activist dr. Marc lamont hill. You might recognize him from some of the cable news shows they have a little light fare food, coffee from local brand la colombe. Plus a vast array of titles by and about people of color. And speaking of books, our own Tamala Edwards sat down with the two authors of tasting freedom. A book about the life of Octavious Catto a little known philadelphia civil rights activist from the 1800s. Take a look. Authors murray dubin and Daniel Bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a biography about forgotten philadelphia hero octav
Some of the calls are coming from the pilot. We get more from andrea grime of our sister station wcbs in newark. Someone shooting lazers. That just happened again . Affirmative. A lazer about four or 5 miles back. Getting lazer at 10 00. Who is getting the lazer at 10 00 oclock . United 330. And american 1976 checking in with you and we just got the lazer also, here at 3,000. Well, those green glaring lights seen here in fbi simulation video are small but aimed at the cockpit. They leave a pilot temporarily blind. Last nights incident so dangerous air Traffic Control had to choose landing patterns of several flights. And this is not the first time that the new york area has seen lazer pointers aimed at landing flight. Last year alone, new york airports reported about 100 incidents. Pointing a lazer at a plane is a crime. If convicted could you face 20 years and 250,000 in fines. That was reporter Andrea Grimes every sister station wcbs in new york, much more on the story tonight for yo
Nbc 10 news today on this thursday. Im chris cato. We start with bill henley with todays forecast. In the wake of yesterdays storms, dry air is flooding into the area and brought the temperatures down. Much of the area is 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. 66 and fall at this hour in philadelphia. Look at the 50s. Falllike this morning for pottstown and doylestown. 65 in wrightstown and 64 in wilmington but those numbers are coming down. 62 at the airport. Hourbyhour forecast lots of sunshine and clouds out of the picture and the temperatures will warm from 66 at 6 00 to 70 at 9 00 and into the middle 70s at lunch time. Through it all, north northeasterly winds until lunch time and the dry air that is coming into the area and keep us cooler through the day. The sevenday forecast coming up in the next half hour but ill have a peek of the weekend when i come back in ten minutes. Lets check in with our traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. This morning, on 95 around girard area on the southb
The day today. Your weekend forecast a peek at that when im back in ten minutes. Right now here is Jessica Boyington in the first alert traffic center. Septa delays already this morning. If youre following septa on twitter which i am the doylestown service is suspended between doylestown and lansdale. 95 betry ross bridge moving along just fine. We are losing the right hand shoulders due to the ongoing instruction. Not a lot of volume in the area yet and pops up within the next 45 minutes. Out the door on the blue route 14 minute drive times here all of the cars are green so good news. 14 minutes in both directions northbound or southbound. From 95 up towards the schuylkill expressway area bridges are currently fine so far this morning we are seeing two lanes blocked still heading westbound into philadelphia on the ben franklin bridge. A headsup this sunday coming up the ben franklin bridge closed from 6 30 a. M. Until 8 00 a. M. So find an alternate bridge to get into the city on sund