Some rules we follow and some rules we break—who knew this longer than anyone? Our Founding Fathers and Pop Jones. He saw 106 Independence Days before he passed away this January at 107 years old. As a boy growing up in West Philadelphia, he had no rights once he left a prescribed area of town.… Continue reading The Timeless Wisdom of Pop Jones: Breaking Rules and Making History
I always thought it was God’s sick joke to be the daughter of my Dad, who played and then coached Sixers Championships, when I couldn’t make a basket unless my eyes were closed. When I was young, I asked my Dad to teach me how to play basketball. He must have been trying to get… Continue reading At 106, Pop Jones Captures The Heart of The City of Brotherly Love
The day after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. died on that fateful Thursday evening in April, the world needed non-violence while the basketball game played on; now we’re getting called to sit in (if we want to call it that) and the games have stopped. Times haven’t changed much, or have they? The Friday after… Continue reading The Day After…MLK
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