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Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag: Freedom Cry – Part 8 – Scientific Inquiry 2/2 (PS4) – Video

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COUNTDOWN: Nelson Mandela’s Legacy and the Unfinished Struggle for Freedom in Africa – Video

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COUNTDOWN: Nelson Mandela #39;s Legacy and the Unfinished Struggle for Freedom in Africa
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Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag: Freedom Cry – Part 6 – Lifting the Veil (PS4) – Video

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Freedom fest honors another king

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JONATHAN TAKIFF, Daily News Staff Writer takiffj@phillynews.com, 215-854-5960 Posted: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 12:16 AM

WHO'S OCTAVIUS V. Catto? Why is the Mann Center for the Performing Arts launching the first Philadelphia Freedom Festival in his honor, starting next month and culminating with a big concert in July featuring newly commissioned music by Uri Caine, performances by gospel great Dr. Marvin Sapp, a 300-voice choir and the Philadelphia Orchestra?

Ask the average older guy on the street, and he might remember, painfully, a school in West Philadelphia formerly named for Catto (pronounced "Cat-oh").

"It was a place they sent you if you were a bad kid," shared Daniel Biddle, co-author with Murray Dubin of the 2010 biography Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America.

"The name was used by parents and teachers as a threat. 'That's where you're going to wind up, at Catto,' " said Biddle, an editor at the Inquirer, which, like the Daily News, is owned by Interstate General Media. (The school was later renamed to honor singer/activist Paul Robeson.)

"We were looking to do something special, community-based, timed to this year's 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and Catto's name came up, suggested by someone who'd read Tasting Freedom," said Cahill.

"Catto was truly a Renaissance man," added Williams, citing his accomplishments as an educator, athlete, patriot and activist.

Catto took a leadership role in recruiting the first African-American regiments in the previously all-white Union Army of the Civil War. He integrated trolley cars in Philadelphia; and organized and played in Philadelphia's Negro Baseball League team, which had the balls (bats and gloves) to take on white teams.

Leading a high-profile civil rights march, Catto brought thousands of protesters to Broad Street "right here in front of the Union League," noted Dubin, gazing out the club's windows.

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Freedom breaks silence, blames leak on freeze

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Nearly a week after Freedom Industries last spoke publicly, the company broke its silence Thursday evening, proposing a theory that its "Crude MCHM" chemical leak was caused, in part, by a broken water pipe uphill from its property, according to a source close to the company who demanded anonymity.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nearly a week after Freedom Industries last spoke publicly, the company broke its silence Thursday evening, proposing a theory that its "Crude MCHM" chemical leak was caused, in part, by a broken water pipe uphill from its property, according to a source close to the company who demanded anonymity.

The source said water from the broken pipe flowed under the tank farm, then froze during the recent cold temperatures and expanded, puncturing the tank from below.

"It looks like somebody took a sharp object and stuck it through the bottom," the source said.

He said that even though the tanks were surrounded by a concrete retaining wall, they were sitting on gravel, so the chemical leak seeped through the gravel, into the ground and under the wall.

State officials have described the retaining wall as shoddy and in need of repair. A representative with the Chemical Safety Board, which is inspecting the site, said Thursday that the tank sits on a concrete pad and the soil that surrounds the pad.

West Virginia American Water replaced a leaking water line along Barlow Drive on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a water company spokeswoman. Barlow Drive is where Freedom's tank farm is located.

The leak of Crude MCHM, a coal-processing chemical, contaminated the Elk River and the drinking water of 300,000 residents of the Kanawha Valley.

The Freedom source also attributed blame to what he called a very old terra cotta culvert that runs beneath Freedom's property and helped provide an avenue for the water to collect beneath the tank.

"No one is saying that this is absolutely how it happened," he said, "but there are photos of the inside of the tank that clearly show the upward puncture."

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Snowden named to Freedom of the Press Foundation board of directors

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Edward Snowden, who leaked information on the huge U.S. surveillance programs, will join the Freedom of the Press Foundation board, the organization said.

"I am proud and honored to welcome Edward Snowden to Freedom of the Press Foundation's board of directors. He is the quintessential American whistle-blower, and a personal hero of mine," said foundation co-founder Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers on the U.S. government's decision-making relative to the Vietnam War.

"Leaks are the lifeblood of the republic and, for the first time, the American public has been given the chance to debate democratically the NSA's [National Security Agency] mass surveillance programs," Ellsberg said in a release Tuesday. "Accountability journalism can't be done without the courageous acts exemplified by Snowden, and we need more like him."

The Freedom of the Press Foundation was founded in 2012 to support public-interest journalism dedicated to transparency and accountability.

Snowden, living in Russia after he was granted temporary asylum in August, said it was "tremendously humbling to be called to serve the cause of our free press, and it is the honor of a lifetime to do so alongside extraordinary Americans like Daniel Ellsberg on FPF's board of directors."

"The unconstitutional gathering of the communications records of everyone in America threatens our most basic rights, and the public should have a say in whether or not that continues," Snowden said. "Thanks to the work of our free press, today we do, and if the NSA won't answer to Congress, they'll have to answer to the newspapers, and ultimately, the people."

Snowden will officially join the board of directors in February 2014.

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