the future is for the unafraid. i m rick williams. and i m melisa magee. tonight it s a special visions 2018. celebrating black history month! meet temple s 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 tonight s show. we re here at uncle bobbie s coffee and books in germantown. it s 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 1800 s. take a look. authors murray dubin and daniel bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a
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 1800 s. 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 country s 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 couldn t sit in a, in a jury. you could not go to the academy of music. you couldn t 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
line train runs right behind it, meaning that s now closed, so if you are going to manayunk tonight on that regional rail line, it is not going to happen, it will be closed today at least thomas you see here firefighters, they just stopped with the hoses couple of minutes ago putting out the hot spots after fire started 2:00 this morning, so we re going on 16 hours now that they ve been here on the scene huge warehouse, 65,000 square feet, no word at this point on cause of the fire. but, this is a vacant building two-story building once housed metal manufacturer, graphics company. now, getting back to the train issue, that s the big issue right now tracks behind the building as i mentioned, fear walbeck there could collapse on to the tracks. we do noah demolition team is here right now in essence trying to figure out how to knock out this wall without damaging those train tracks. in addition to the norristown manayunk line, three bus routes also being detoured for the time be
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