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The Medal of Honor. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Community

Push to posthumously give black soldier D-Day Medal of Honor

A new push is underway to posthumously award an African American soldier the Medal of Honor for his bravery on D-Day.

7 years ago

A foreclosure sign in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. will create statewide foreclosure database in latest attempt to combat crisis

Home foreclosure is still a big problem in New Jersey. A new database could help.

7 years ago

Kids vie for candy that’s thrown by parade marchers at the annual Marple Newtown Fourth of July Parade. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Community

Delco shows its love for America with a parade that includes a ‘quiet zone’

As the parade passes by no loud sirens will blare and no loud jolting noises will sound, making the parade accessible to people who are sensitive to loud sounds.

7 years ago

Alyssa Collins, director of the Penn State Southeast Agricultural Research and Extension Center, holds hemp seeds grown as part of a research crop. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Science

Researchers rush to answer questions about newly-legal hemp crops in Pa.

Pennsylvania approved more than 300 permits to farm industrial hemp this growing season after Congress loosened restrictions on the crop last year.

7 years ago

Protesters found a way around the police barricade and blocked Philadelphia’s Fourth of July Parade. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Dozens arrested for protesting Trump immigration policies during Philadelphia July Fourth parade

The protest action was organized as part of a national “Never Again Week of Action,” which saw Jewish-American organizations orchestrate similar marches across the U.S.

7 years ago

Marchers celebrate Fourth of July at Philadelphia’s Independence Day parade. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s Celebration of Freedom ceremony brings visitors from all over the country

Visitors from all over the country gathered at Independence Hall for the annual Celebration of Freedom ceremony

7 years ago

In this file photo, Tamaqua Area School Board member Nicholas Boyle speaks in support of arming teachers and other school employees, to members of the media after a news conference in Tamaqua, Pa., Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Education

Gov. Tom Wolf says new law ensures teachers can’t carry guns in schools

Some supporters of increased gun restrictions urged him to veto Senate Bill 621.

7 years ago

A bronze statue of 19th-century orator and writer Frederick Douglass is seen in the Emancipation Hall of the United States Visitor Center on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, where it was dedicated. The bronze statue of Douglass is by Maryland artist Steve Weitzman. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Frederick Douglass’ ‘The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro’ still resonates

Douglass proved he was not the typical Independence Day Antebellum orator when he spoke before an audience in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852.

7 years ago

A ground-mounted solar panel at Millersville University tracks the sun’s path across the sky. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science

Inside one of Pennsylvania’s most energy-efficient buildings

In 2018, the building generated 75% more energy than it consumed–thanks to more than 500 solar panels on the roof, a ground-mounted solar array, and 20 geothermal wells.

7 years ago

Holly Kinyon, a descendent of John Witherspoon, recently purchased a first printing of the Declaration of Independence and has loaned it to the Museum of the American Revolution. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Of the people, for the people: Rare broadside of the Declaration of Independence on view

A broadside printing was made before the official document was signed. For 241 years, it was never seen publicly, until now in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

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Close up photo of a mosquito on a leaf
Science

After a wet spring, Pa. DEP monitors for West Nile virus. Will this summer be bad?

Last year was one of the worst on record for West Nile in Pennsylvania. The number of cases jumped to 130, from 20 in 2017, and eight people died.

7 years ago

Nineteen-year-old Sikh airman Jaspreet Singh will march in the Independence Day Parade in Washington D.C. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

N.J.-Pa. Sikh veterans march in national Independence Day parade to combat discrimination

A New Jersey-based Sikh veterans organization has rallied a contingent of servicemen who practice the South Asian faith to march in Washington D.C. Independence Day Parade.

7 years ago

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The view from a dorm room on Stockton's Atlantic City campus. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Science

Facing a Jersey Shore underwater, Stockton proposes coastal resiliency institute in Atlantic City

Rising sea levels threaten to inundate Jersey Shore communities. Stockton University sees an opportunity as towns build their defenses.

7 years ago

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Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment
July 4 - 10, 2019

Philly’s biggest party, celebrating Hispanic culture and art for kids

Tonya Pendleton runs down things to do around Philadelphia for July 4th and through the weekend.

7 years ago

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Ladder 2 Fire Station unveiled the design for a new mural that will be painted by Eric Okdeh. (Anannya Kundu for WHYY)
Community

New mural celebrates Philadelphia Fire Department’s history

Ladder 2 Fire Station unveiled the design for a new mural that will be painted by Eric Okdeh.

7 years ago

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