American christianity and southern culture at the duke divinity school, and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. You can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, hes got an appointment at duke and unc. We are going to talk best well tonight. He is the author of blood done sign my name which was nominated for the book award. He also serves on the executive board for the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say, he does a marvelous job of putting amit hills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier book is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford North Carolina about 25 miles from here and i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here at the intersection of ninth street where during the war in 1944, a black soldier in uniform from philadelphia would not move to the back of the bus and when he got off the bus, the bus driv
Heat advisory that will, pumping back into effect as we head into tuesday. Noon time until 7 00 p. M. For Philadelphia County and surrounding counties and so that includes a large portion of the south jersey, northwestern suburbs, parts of the delaware as well. So you really want to take it easy during those main, problems heating hours of the day, and we are in the miss of the heat wave. We have 94 degrees yesterday. 1 degree shy off the record High Temperature. We topped out at 94. Forecast high for tomorrow is 96 degrees. That bonnie deed break record High Temperatures. We will talk more about this extreme heat and when we will get some relief coming up in your full forecast in just a bit. Lauren, thank you. Track temperatures and your full forecast anytime, down load cbs philly weather app available on itunes and google play. Within the pennsylvania half an hour, jury deliberations have begun in bill cosbys Sexual Assault trial. They will deciding whether to convict or acquit, the
Big weekend ahead, a lot of activities planned for fathers day tomorrow how are we looking. It looks like tomorrow will be the better of the two days, so that is good news. We are doing this Outdoor Activities weather, we are grilling for dad whether you are going to the phillies game tomorrow or getting out enjoying this sunday it does look like, again, tomorrow should be better of the two day. Wake up on this saturday morning though it is a dreary start to the day. It is not so much that it is raining, really heavily, across the Delaware Valley but what were seeing is patchy fog that is developing, and areas of, light drizzle, and a few sprinkles in the region. Storm scan three the radar is showing you a relatively quiet sea but again a few showers out there toward harrisburg, maybe isolated rump of thunder as well. Up here in the poconos a few areas of light showers coming out of the maryland moving toward wilmington as well a few areas of light shower activity. This is what we are
Reverend register green served walter Memorial Baptist Church in northwest for more than 40 years. He says he applied some of kings philosophies to his own work. Turner sat down with green who said kings outlook had a big impact on his life. He was a freedom writer when he first met dr. Martin luther king jr. He tells me the day he got out of jail was the first time he met him. Looking back at that experience, it was one of the best things that happened to me. He remembers it like it was yesterday. He was a College Student preparing to study theology when he decided to become a freedom writer. Protesting segregation at rail and bus terminals in the deep south. The philosophy at this point is no bail, jail, no bail. He spent close to two months in the Mississippi State penitentiary because of it. This letter will probably relieve you. At 77 years behind bars to his parents. He and other freedom writers were invited to the Ebenezer Church to meet dr. King in atlanta. Martin luther king j
It felt much more like spring than winter. And while most people got outside and enjoyed the warmth, others still held on to february with an evening skate in front of city hall. Sunday night and the big story on action news tonight is the end of a picture perfect weekend in our area. Thats right. Today we hit record High Temperatures in some spots. But it was flat out beautiful for everybody. And many made the most of it. Live coverage of the amazing weather. Christie ileto is live at city hall. But we begin with meteorologist Melissa Mcgee and the first check of the accuweather forecast. Walter and sarah, its hard too believe that we are in the month of february. Because temperatures more reflective of a springlike season than the dead of winter. We had record highs today. In fact, record warmth in philadelphia. Marketed out at 70 degrees. Thats 25 degrees above average. These numbers more typical of mid to late april rather than february. Other highs we shattered today, wilmington,