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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Education

N.J. lawmakers propose plan to end school ‘lunch shaming’

The proposal would have the state pick up what federal dollars do not for school lunch costs.

7 years ago

File photo: The founding members of Kool & The Gang, (from left) George Brown, Robert 'Kool' Bell, Dennis D. T. Thomas, and Claydes Charles Smith, were given the Marian Anderson Award in November, 2019. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Kool & The Gang’s ‘Celebration’ at the Marian Anderson Award ceremony

Now in their 50th year, the legendary funk band came to the Kimmel Center to be honored with musical tributes.

7 years ago

Career Foreign Service officer George Kent, left, and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor, right, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, during the first public impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

New testimony against Trump as impeachment goes public

Watch here as the House of Representatives kicks off public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump.

7 years ago

Comedian and media mogul Byron Allen poses for a picture Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 13 in a $20 billion lawsuit Allen filed against Comcast, with the outcome also affecting a $10 billion case he filed against Charter Communications. (Chris Carlson/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Civil rights advocates: Comcast SCOTUS decision could be ‘devastating’

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing two interpretations of a Reconstruction-era law created to protect against racial discrimination.

7 years ago

Listen 2:21
Bill Cobb of Redeemed PA talking with Louis Benson about his right to vote in the Defender Association lobby on Sept. 29, 2016. (David Swanson/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law
PA Post

For Pa.’s returning citizens, getting into the voting booth can be an uphill battle

There is no database that logs if people who were once convicted of a felony register to vote or even if they do vote.

7 years ago

A person exits Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health

Former Hahnemann residents fear bankruptcy will leave them without malpractice insurance

A former Hahnemann residency program director is warning that residents may be left without malpractice insurance to cover their time at the hospital.

7 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City postpones ruling on Bart Blatstein’s Delaware River waterfront Wawa

The battle over Bart Blatstein’s Wawa on the waterfront will continue into 2020.

7 years ago

Emily Cutaiar, 8,  (left) and her sister Jessica, 9, know not to drink water from the tap in their Sellersville home. Their well was found to be contaminated with PFAS. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

DEP names Bergey’s Tires as source of PFAS contamination in Bucks County private wells

The Pa. DEP determined Bergey’s was the source and “potentially responsible entity” of the contamination involved 14 private wells in Bucks County.

7 years ago

In this Oct. 22, 2019 file photo, pipes lay along a construction site on the Mariner East pipeline in a residential neighborhood in Exton, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

FBI opens corruption investigation into Pa.’s approval process of Mariner East pipeline

FBI agents have interviewed current or former state employees in recent weeks about the Mariner East project and the construction permits.

7 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Courts & Law

Police widow Maureen Faulkner wants Philly DA off Mumia Abu-Jamal appeal

Police widow Maureen Faulkner is trying again to have Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner's office removed from the latest appeal over her husband's 1981 traffic stop.

7 years ago

Pedestrians walk past a polling station on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

With straight-party voting gone in Pa., who will miss it most?

It was an option that hundreds of thousands of voters exercised for the last time in last week’s election.

7 years ago

Piping plover with chicks in Cape May, N.J. (Courtesy of Kevin Karlson)
Down the Shore
Science

N.J.’s endangered piping plover population increased in 2019, but researchers are cautiously optimistic

N.J.'s piping plovers population increased by 19% in 2019, but researchers are cautiously optimistic about the threatened and endangered shorebird's long term prospects.

7 years ago

In this historical photo from May 31, 1889, survivors stand by homes destroyed when the South Fork Dam collapsed in Johnstown, Pa. As officials prepare to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the enormous Johnstown Flood of 1889 that killed 2,209 people, new research has helped explain why the deluge was so deadly. (AP Photo)
Community

Report flags 145 of Pennsylvania’s dams as dangerous

Pennsylvania is home to a lot of old dams—many of which are privately owned. The state agency that regulates those dams says it has serious concerns about 145 of them.

7 years ago

Aliyah, 8 and father, Kalif Troy, of West Philadelphia, participate in a play date with the Fathering Circle on Saturday, October 12, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Rethinking fatherhood, one day at a time

The men of The Fathering Circle are taking on #MeToo and their own fathers to reckon with their past and reimagine parenting.

7 years ago

Sharif El-Mekki left his job as a principal in Southwest Philadelphia to start an organization which aims to recruit more African Americans into the teaching profession. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘Revolutionary’ principal goes all-in on quest for more black teachers

As the son of Black Panthers, Sharif El-Mekki grew up in West Philadelphia enraged at the injustice he saw all around him, including in education.

7 years ago

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