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De’Wayne Drummond, president of the Mantua Civic Association, at 34th and Wallace streets in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

After a surge in crashes, safety fixes are coming to 34th St. in Mantua

Mantua residents are working with city transportation planners to improve safety on a dangerous corridor. Changes are expected to come later this year.

5 years ago

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Allegory), 2012. Featured in PAFA's Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale exhibit. (PAFA)
Things To Do
Community
January 21 - 27, 2021

Pop-up dining, a tribute to Clifford Brown, and new exhibits at PAFA and Penn in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

This week’s Things to Do includes cultural and educational events outdoors and online.

5 years ago

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Philly Fighting COVID CEO Andrei Doroshin speaks at the opening of the community vaccine clinic at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Group entrusted with Philly vaccine clinic abandoned testing, stranding communities

Many in the city’s medical community were surprised when Philly Fighting COVID opened a mass vaccination site — and stopped offering free neighborhood tests.

5 years ago

Listen 3:39
A crowd of about 50 presses towards the security barrier in an unsuccessful attempt to hear parts of the inauguration program. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY News)
Politics & Policy

Outside the gates, hundreds gather in D.C. to see Biden and Harris make history

Though security barricades kept visitors blocks away from the Capitol, hundreds tried their best to catch a glimpse of President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

5 years ago

Abdulazeem Sheikh, 22, leads others from the group Young Muslims in afternoon prayer. Thousands of protesters gathered at Thomas Paine Plaza for a March for Humanity in support of refugees and immigrants in Philadelphia on Feb. 4, 2017.  (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

‘People can breathe easier’: Philly immigration advocates react to Biden executive orders

Some are hopeful. Some are cautious. Some said simply having a president who is not actively hostile to immigrants could have a major positive effect.

5 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden’s and Dr. Jill Biden arrive his inauguration
Politics & Policy

On Day One, Biden targets Trump policies on climate, virus

Biden on Wednesday will end construction on Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall, end the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and rejoin the Paris Climate Accord.

5 years ago

In this image from video, Vice President Kamala Harris swears in Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., on the floor of the Senate Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)
Politics & Policy

Democrats gaining Senate control as new members take oath

The three Democrats join a Senate narrowly split 50-50 between the parties, but giving Democrats the majority with Harris able to cast the tie-breaking vote.

5 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff arrive at the steps of the U.S. Capitol
Politics & Policy

Pa., Del. Democrats host joint virtual celebration of Biden-Harris inauguration

Pennsylvania and Delaware democratic lawmakers gathered virtually to celebrate the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

5 years ago

Amy Roe went all out in decorating her 1955 Ford for Biden's inauguration. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Her vintage pink Ford decorated for inaugural, Delaware woman goes ridin’ for Biden

Amy Roe wheeled around northern New Castle County in her 1955 Ford to commemorate Joe Biden’s inauguration as the first president from Delaware.

5 years ago

Listen 1:26
Vice President Kamala Harris looks on during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan.  20, 2021 in Washington. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool Photo via AP)
Community

‘Motivates the whole community’: South Asian residents from Philly react to VP Kamala Harris

“It is very inspiring for all of us, especially for South Asians who are not necessarily politically engaged,” said one supporter. “Perhaps it will inspire some of our younger

5 years ago

Alpha Kappa Alpha member Brandee Anderson is ecstatic for fellow AKA member and Vice President Kamala Harris at her home in Philadelphia on Inauguration Day 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘The first but not the last’: Philly-area Black women celebrate VP Harris with pearls and pride

Dressed in pearls and Chucks, AKA sisters and elected officials cheered the historic moment. “She’s the first, but she won’t be the last,” said Philly's Dr. Ala Stanford.

5 years ago

(AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Montco commissioners call new vaccine distribution plan ‘tremendously unfair’

The plan could keep some of the most vulnerable in Montco from getting the vaccine for months.

5 years ago

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
Politics & Policy

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew."

5 years ago

A child reacts as villagers hold placards featuring U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after participating in special prayers ahead of her inauguration, outside a Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris' maternal grandfather, south of Chennai, Tamil Nadu state, India, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. A tiny, lush-green Indian village surrounded by rice paddy fields was beaming with joy Wednesday hours before its descendant, Kamala Harris, takes her oath of office and becomes the U.S. vice president. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Politics & Policy

Indian village cheers for Harris during swearing-in as U.S. VP

Residents of a tiny Indian village surrounded by rice paddies flocked to a Hindu temple, setting off firecrackers and praying and as they watched Kamala Harris take her oath.

5 years ago

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts
Politics & Policy

Biden takes the helm as president: ‘Democracy has prevailed’

Biden used his inaugural address to urge people to come together to heal a nation left deeply divided by a tumultuous four years.

5 years ago

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