The sunshine will break through the clouds in the Lehigh Valley and delaware, too. 81 degrees in philadelphia this afternoon. And delaware, right up to 80 degrees for the Lehigh Valley and new jersey. Its 80 there. The clouds will linger a little longer. The showers will shut off this morning as we get breaks of sunshine for this afternoon. Well walk you through it hour by hour when i come back in a few minutes. But first well see how the traffic is moving. Jessica boyington has an update from the firstalert traffic center. We have a crash on the northbound side near with traffic getting by, but it is slow. Near route 1 at roberts avenue, it looks good. No delays northbound or southbound. Southbound to the schuylkill, it will start to jam up just a little bit once you approach the schuylkill expressway. The new jersey roads look good. We are clear on the 42 freeway and the new jersey turnpike and 295 in the northbound and southbound sides. And it will end on route 73 near route 561. No
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AD YOU lived in America in the late 1700s and been fond of a rhyming couplet, you may well have read Phyllis Wheatley, the literary sensation of her day. Her status made her work more remarkable: she was a slave, named after the ship that had transported her from West Africa as a child. And she wrote the first book published by an African-American. Many dismissed her authorship because the poems were so dense with classical references. “She uses these texts as a way to express her pain about being enslaved, to express her desire to overcome her oppression, and her desire to be free,” says Anika Prather, who teaches the course “Blacks in Classical Studies” at Howard University.