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Jeannine Cook (right) owner of Harriett's Bookshop in Fishtown, and her sister Jasmaine Cook, lead a procession on East Girard Avenue
Community

Black-owned Philly bookstore creates civic intervention as Afrofuturist theater

In the face of a racist attack, the Black-owned bookstore turned to Afrofuturism to spark a public intervention.

6 years ago

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Sara Gideon, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a
Politics & Policy

Senate Democrats’ fundraising success puts GOP on defensive

Democratic Senate candidates are mounting a push in Republican states that few would have thought possible just a few months ago.

6 years ago

Apartments are seen in Hilltop west of downtown Wilmington
Urban Planning

‘It puts you in tears’: Wilmington Council aims to hold landlords accountable with ‘blight bill’

The bill no longer includes a fee increase for landlords and won’t pertain to people who live in their own homes but can’t afford repairs.

6 years ago

Poll worker Chuck Kellander interacts with voters through a plexiglass screen at Belmont Hill Elementary School in Bensalem, Bucks County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
Broke in Philly

Want to be a poll worker? Philly says it’s responding to ‘unprecedented’ number of applicants

If you applied to be a Philly poll worker and haven’t gotten a response, the city says it’s busy working through an “unprecedented” number of applications.

6 years ago

Dozens of Trump supporters packed into a cramped conference room to hear Rudy Giuliani's Columbus Day remarks in Philadelphia. (Katie Meyer / WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Giuliani rallies Italians for Trump in cramped Philly conference room

Rudy Giuliani swung through Philly Monday to stump for Trump — and Christopher Columbus — in a cramped, indoor event.

6 years ago

(Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Delaware settles education lawsuit, more than doubles funding to address equity

As part of the settlement, state funding will more than double its current allocations for students who are low income, have disabilities or are English learners.

6 years ago

Briheem Douglas, a union maintenance worker at Lincoln Financial Field, knocks on doors in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood to encourage people to make a plan to vote as soon as possible. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Hospitality workers canvass for Biden, hoping to boost Black and Latino vote in Philly

The union has launched door-knocking efforts in Pa., Nevada, Arizona and Florida, battleground states where they have large numbers.

6 years ago

(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

Advocates call for action as N.J. utility shut-off moratorium end date looms

Scores of residents financially impacted by the pandemic could find themselves having to pay their utility bills, even as New Jersey sees record unemployment.

6 years ago

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Health
WITF

Pennsylvania treasurer leads calls to lower price of remdesivir

Even before President Trump received the drug remdesivir to help treat his case of COVID-19, Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella was raising alarms about the price of the drug

6 years ago

President Trump participates in the first presidential debate
Politics & Policy

Resuming campaign travel, Trump to return to Pennsylvania

Trump was resuming campaign travel Monday after he was hospitalized and then quarantined at the White House following his positive test.

6 years ago

A Facebook logo is pictured in a file photo.
Community

Facebook bans Holocaust denial, distortion posts

The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world over the summer who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg, urging him to take action.

6 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing
Courts & Law

Health care is focus as Barrett Supreme Court hearing opens

Republicans, who control the Senate, are moving at a breakneck pace to seat Judge Amy Coney Barrett before the Nov. 3 election to secure Trump's pick.

6 years ago

An outdoor reading and music room
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Play Everywhere: Philly kids are getting 16 spaces designed to spark joy

The installations are part of a national initiative that creates play spaces wherever it can fit them — on sidewalks, buildings and even inside offices.

6 years ago

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Free Library of Philadelphia
Politics & Policy

Pa. libraries launch ‘Hear Me Out’ to heal the state through civic dialogue

An effort to foster dialogues between people in different parts of Pennsylvania attempts to find common ground in a divided state.

6 years ago

The Pennsylvania state Capitol
Politics & Policy

Here’s how Democrats could flip the Pennsylvania legislature

Democrats have been slowly chipping away at the majorities Republicans hold in the Pennsylvania House and Senate, but still need to flip 13 seats to seize control.

6 years ago

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