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☆ The global synthetic drugs crisis has hit West Africa, where people are digging up human bones to make a drug called 'kush'
  + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Cemeteries are bolstering their security measures because gravediggers are stealing human bones to make powerful synthetic drugs, local journalists told Business Insider. AdvertisementA vendor sells daily necessities at a market in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Feb. 21, 2024. Formaldehyde also has euphoric properties, says the National Library of Medicine, which explains why kush users could be raiding Freetown's cemeteries. JOHN WESSELS | Getty ImagesJalloh noted that the use of synthetic drugs was not unique to Sierra Leone. ReutersIn 2015, BI's Erin Brodwin covered the rise of these synthetic drugs, marketed as "spice," "K2," "black mamba," or "crazy clown."
Persons: —, Sierra, Julius Maada, Michael Cole, Sally Hayden, JOHN WESSELS, Cole, Mabinty Magdalene Kamar, Abdul Jalloh, HUGH KINSELLA CUNNINGHAM, Thomas Dixon, Jalloh, Salifu Kamara, kush, BI's Erin Brodwin, Brodwin, tranq Organizations: Service, Business, Xinhua News Agency, Getty, Anglia Ruskin University, The Irish Times, National Library of Medicine, Politico, Sierra, Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital, Police, Getty Images Local, Salone Times, BBC, Freetown Police Force, National Drug Agency, NPR, Guardian, Disease Control, Prevention, Reuters, Financial Times Locations: Freetown, African, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Mabinty, Waterloo , Sierra Leone, kush, New York City, New York, Kensington, North Philadelphia
☆ Biden Is Losing Black Voters. Here’s Why It Matters.
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PHILADELPHIA—When Michelle Smith voted for President Biden in 2020, she thought he would help people like her, a Black mother working two jobs and raising three teenage boys in North Philadelphia. Now she says she won’t vote for him again, citing higher prices, skyrocketing rent and a feeling she has been left behind. “I really did think he was going to help people in my situation,” said Smith, 46 years old, who earns $12.50 an hour working as a home health aide and makes Instacart deliveries for extra money. “It’s like all of them talk a good game until they get elected.”
Persons: Michelle Smith, Biden, “, ”, Smith Organizations: PHILADELPHIA Locations: North Philadelphia
☆ Black Voters Show Signs of Slipping Away From Biden in 2024
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PHILADELPHIA—When Michelle Smith voted for President Biden in 2020, she thought he would help people like her, a Black mother working two jobs and raising three teenage boys in North Philadelphia. Now she says she won’t vote for him again, citing higher prices, skyrocketing rent and a feeling she has been left behind. “I really did think he was going to help people in my situation,” said Smith, 46 years old, who earns $12.50 an hour working as a home health aide and makes Instacart deliveries for extra money. “It’s like all of them talk a good game until they get elected.”
Persons: Michelle Smith, Biden, “, ”, Smith Organizations: PHILADELPHIA Locations: North Philadelphia
☆ Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release
  + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Issie Lapowsky | Abdul Kircher | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Donnell Drinks woke up one morning to banging on his door in the projects of North Philadelphia. Drinks, who was 15 and the oldest of three boys, had nodded off after taking his youngest brother to school. It wasn’t a truant officer at his door, though — no one had ever come knocking about that. The officers told him to get out, not bothering to ask if there was an adult around, which there wasn’t. Mr. Drinks’s dad had abandoned the family a decade earlier, and his mom was in the throes of crack cocaine addiction.
Persons: Donnell Drinks, Drinks’s, He’d, Groggy, “, That’s, ” Locations: North Philadelphia
☆ Dancer Stabbed to Death Was a Shy Boy Turned Proud, Exuberant Man
  + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Maria Cramer | Wesley Parnell | More About Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Karen Pendergrass kept seeing the lanky boy walk by the lunchroom where she taught dance twice a week to eighth grade students in North Philadelphia. He would peer inside, then run away as soon as Ms. Pendergrass made eye contact. “You come peeking in my door one more time and you’re coming in my class,” Ms. Pendergrass told him. At 28, he was preparing to audition for “The Lion King,” one of his favorite Broadway musicals. They were blasting Beyoncé and dancing around the car when a group of about three young men told them to stop and hurled gay slurs at them.
Persons: Karen Pendergrass, Pendergrass, Ms, O’Shae Sibley, Sibley Organizations: ” Locations: North Philadelphia, Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn
☆ Philadelphia is cracking down on Airbnb and Vrbo. Locals are torn over whether it's a good thing.
  + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Philadelphia locals are divided over a crackdown that could remove 85% of Airbnb and Vrbo listings. A local Airbnb host said it's unfair and doesn't support it, even if it means less competition. The move could eliminate 85% of short-term rentals, or nearly 1,700 pads, according to the city's own estimate. It's a tiny window that seems unfair, local host Rob Brown told Insider. As a local, she's also experienced disturbances with short-term rentals in the area.
Persons: Lisette Santiago, Santiago, Rob Brown, Brown, Mark Squilla, WHYY, Airbnb, We've, she's, She's Organizations: Service, city's Department, Licenses, City, Temple University, Department, Travelers Locations: Philadelphia, Wall, Silicon, North Philadelphia, Temple
☆ Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Adam Paul Susaneck | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +15 min
The year before, pedestrian deaths reached a 40-year high. Pedestrian and cyclist injuries tend to be concentrated in poorer neighborhoods that have a larger share of Black and Hispanic residents. Roosevelt Boulevard North Philly High Injury Network West Philly 3 miles Percent Black and Hispanic 20 40 60 80% Washington D.C. Oslo and Helsinki, which adopted Vision Zero in the 1990s, recorded zero traffic deaths in 2019, and Helsinki had just two pedestrian deaths in 2021. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Washington, pedestrian deaths have actually risen since the adoption of Vision Zero.
☆ Jill Scott announces ‘Who is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol. 1’ 23rd anniversary tour
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —After a 20th-anniversary tour of Jill Scott’s chart-topping album, “Who Is Jill Scott? : Words and Sounds Vol I” was forced to end prematurely due to the pandemic, it will resume. The tour, produced by Live Nation Urban, will play in over 20 markets across the country. It went double platinum album and earned her several Grammy nominations, including best new artist (2001), best R&B album (2001), and best female R&B vocal performance for three years in a row (2001-2003). Pre-sales for Scott’s tour will begin Dec. 6.
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