The legacies of influential Black Individuals haven’t all the time been acknowledged, so it’s not unusual that modern-day residents could overlook the historic websites of their very own cities. Whereas some historic Black figures within the U.S. are extra well-known than others, there are in reality hundreds of individuals relationship again generations to Seventeenth-century slavery…
READING, Pa. – The Studying Planning Fee on Tuesday evening reviewed a preliminary/last land improvement for a proposed adaptive reuse of the historic five-story constructing at 35 N. Sixth St. The constructing has been vacant for the previous decade. Shuman Growth Group, Studying, plans to transform the previous headquarters for Meridian Financial institution right into a…
Tucked into the hills of New Jersey bordering 5500 acres of preserved land is a Warren County Gilded Age marvel. “This was constructed through the nation place period of American historical past as a result of those that made all the cash needed to get out of the cities,” mentioned historian Joan Salvas. The 18,000-square-foot,…
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon staff in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize on Friday, marking the primary profitable U.S. organizing effort within the retail big’s historical past and handing an surprising win to a nascent group that fueled the union drive. Warehouse staff solid 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor…
EASTON, Pa. – Easton has made it a precedence to rework blighted buildings into one thing helpful. It is one thing the Governor lately acknowledged town for, and it is one thing the house owners of the Townley Home have completed efficiently. Within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, North Third Road in Easton was often…
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Supreme Courtroom Justice nominee Decide Ketanji Brown Jackson fielded questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday on private issues and, extra pointedly, her skilled previous. “We have by no means had a justice on the Supreme Courtroom ever that is been a federal public defender,” mentioned Seth Weber, an adjunct professor for…