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Philadelphia’s 1st African American Statute PHILADELPHIA, PA – In 1871, Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street as marauding whites created havoc on municipal election day. He was only 32 at the time of his death. In the wake of the Civil War, Catto was a fearless civil rights activist fighting for an… Read more »

Trump’s illegal Transgender Ban Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, President- in title- Donald Trump, casually issued an executive order banning transgender service members from the military, which runs contrary to Federal Administrative and Federal Court rulings. This ban not only shows this administrations inability to read the temperature of the country, but also undoes months of… Read more »