A 2-time All-American in the hammer throw, Desnoyers won the NCAA championship in the event in his senior season, and also set a Boston College hammer-throw record. The NCAA hammer-throw champion in ...

Mayor Jim Kenney gave hundreds of speeches during his eight years in office. But fairly or not, the 11 words for which he is most likely to be remembered are ones he uttered while standing on the ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

PHILADELPHIA — Jim Kenney is back on the political scene, just 282 days after he left. The former Philadelphia mayor made a foray back into politics Wednesday, serving as a surrogate for Vice ...

TOKYO - Poland's Wojciech Nowicki won the men's hammer throw with a personal best of 82.52m on Wednesday, while his compatriot Pawel Fajdek avoided another Olympic disappointment by picking up the ...

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Michael Rashid reportedly referred to the Holocaust movie “Schindler’s List” as “Jewish propaganda.” (JTA) — A top official in Philadelphia’s city government resigned Sunday after ...

Kenny Malone is a cohost for NPR's Planet Money podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for WNYC's Only Human podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for Miami's WLRN. And before that, he was a ...

Jim Carrey honed his stand-up comedy act through the ‘80s before joining the cast of the comedy series In Living Color. Carrey broke into acting with roles in the 1994 films Ace Ventura: Pet ...

Kenny Leon's subtly reimagined revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre on October 10. The cast is led by Jim Parsons, who conducts the small-town ...