Harrisburg’s Comprehensive Plan Working Group takes questions from PennLive at 6 p.m. today on Facebook Live
Updated May 04, 2021;
Members of the City of Harrisburg’s Comprehensive Plan Community Working Group will meet with PennLive’s Editorial Board at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a Zoom event that will be aired on live on Facebook.
Winnie Okello, Basir Vincent, and James Hobbs, all members of the working group, will discuss the upcoming public Zoom forum “Civic Engagement, Power, and Politics,” that will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, May 6. The committee says it is looking to engage resident of the city with the following objectives:
Unfinished Business: Here s what President Biden has done in his first 100 days | Opinion
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By Rogette Harris
Joe Biden entered the White House with an expansive agenda that included developing a plan to better control the spread of COVID-19 and the vaccine rollout, enhancing the U.S. economic recovery, prioritizing climate policy, and re-shaping immigration policy.
President Joe Biden is now at his first 100 days in office. This 100-day benchmark started with former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had a huge productive start to his presidency in 1933, and it has been used to judge new presidents ever since.
Many skeptics thought President Biden would forgo large bold ideas and instead focus more on making bipartisan deals. However, he has hit the ground running with his agenda with or without Republican support and started creating a strong record.
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Former Harrisburg NAACP leader Paula Rideout-Harris dies at 68
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Paula Rideout-Harris, former president of the Harrisburg Branch of NAACP, died Saturday at her home in Lower Paxton Township.PennLive files
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Her daughter, Rogette Harris, said her mother had been dealing with a kidney disease for several years.
Harris, a lifelong Harrisburg resident, rose to public prominence in the area with her election as president of the regional NAACP branch in 2000.
Her installation as president coincided with the arrest and prosecution of a state House member from Bucks County, Rep. Thomas Druce, for leaving the scene of a July 1999 accident on Cameron Street that left a Harrisburg man named Kenneth Cains dead.
Here’s why Black History Month matters | Opinion
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
By Joyce M. Davis
In their day, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, even the dignified Mahalia Jackson had to go through the back door to mesmerize audiences with their talents; a sign of their inferior status as Blacks in America society.
Today, acclaimed tenor Christyan Seay can walk through any front door of any Opera house anywhere in America, a sign of the progress Black Americans have made in the centuries-long march from slavery toward full equality.
But we ain’t there, yet.
Black leaders talk about issues of the Black community past, present and future.Posted by PennLive.com on Tuesday, February 16, 2021