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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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 The National Council for Negro Women presented its Mary McLeod Bethune Award to Christine

Imhotep founder, ‘Mama Chris’ Wiggins, honored for educational legacy

It was a weekend of highs and lows for Imhotep Institute Charter High School founder and CEO, M. Christine “Mama Chris” Wiggi ...

13 years ago

 Widener Memorial School student Alicia Rodriguez receives a gift from 35th District Community Relations Officer Roslyn Downing. (Matthew Grady/for NewsWorks)

35th Police District’s Christmas party at special-needs school inspired by personal challenges

For Philadelphia Police Officer Roslyn Downing, the 35th District’s annual Christmas party is more than an assignment. It’s p ...

13 years ago

 Austin Seraphin uses echolocation, or a series of tongue clicks, to navigate through Philadelphia via sound. (Kimberly Paynter/for The Pulse)
The Pulse

How to see through sound with Philadelphia’s Austin Seraphin

A look at echolocation and how some people in the blind community are navigating through life on sounds alone. ...

13 years ago

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protestors at 30th Street Station

Benefits on the verge of ending for hard-core unemployed

Unless Congress acts, Dec. 28 could bring the end of extended unemployment benefits for 180,000 people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and De ...

13 years ago

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 Cars approach the toll booth at the George Washington bridge in Fort Lee, N.J. (AP File Photo/Mary Altaffer)

How a highly politicized Port Authority made the GWB scandal possible

The Bridge-gate scandal that forced the resignations of two of Gov. Chris Christie’s ...

13 years ago

Anderson sentenced to 4 years detention for witness intimidation on Twitter

A Philadelphia teen will spend the next four years of his life at a juvenile detention center for using his Twitter account to intimidate ...

13 years ago

 Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker is shown at a 1980 Senate Banking Committee hearing. The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. each unanimously voted to adopt the so-called Volcker Rule, taking a major step toward preventing extreme risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis. The rule, which states that U.S. banks will be barred in most cases from trading for their own profit under a federal rule is named after Volcker, who advised President Barack Obama during the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Chick Harrity, File)

Volcker Rule just more ‘Big Brother’ banking, a failure of meaningful regulation

With the approval last week of the Volcker Rule, federal regulators have laid the foundation for a yet another Congressional attempt at c ...

13 years ago

National Interest

Fox News’ Caucasian Christmas

 When Bing Crosby crooned his dream of a “white Christmas,” he ...

13 years ago

 In July, a man was killed and his wife critically injured after being hit while walking near Rt 1 in Dewey. (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)

Pedestrian safety discussed in Rehoboth

After an increase in pedestrian fatalities this year, a group working to improve conditions for people walking on the road will hold anot ...

13 years ago

 The final month: Scenes from Germantown High School's last-ever prom (May 28, 2013): Germantown High School seniors celebrate their completion of high school at prom. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Top 50 photos of 2013 in NW Philadelphia [41-50]

Today, NewsWorks‘ Northwest Philadelphia team launches a week-long look at our favorite photographs that ran on our pages ...

13 years ago

 Nasir Bonner of Imhotep tries to jump over the line for a touchdown, but was stopped. The drive ended with a turnover on downs. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

Imhotep Panthers outmatched in state championship-football game [video]

The time for his tears had ended. They already flowed as the clock struck zero on his team’s uncharacteristically sloppy 41- ...

13 years ago

The Philadelphia Girls Choir, which is in its second year, performs in the community parlor at Wesley Enhanced Living Stapeley in Germantown.

Philadelphia Girls Choir visits Germantown for winter sing-along [gallery]

Members of the Philadelphia Girls Choir visited the Wesley Enhance Living community at Stapley in Germantown on Saturday for a winter con ...

13 years ago

 One of the videotapes made by undercover FBI agents during the Abscam political corruption probe. (AP Photo)

The real ‘American Hustle’: Abscam and its lasting impact on New Jersey

The film “American Hustle,” slated to open Friday, chronicles a ...

13 years ago

 Actor and comedian Will Ferrell, speaking as TV anchorman Ron Burgundy during a news conference at Emerson College, Dec. 4, 2013. Ferrell says he modeled Burgundy after former Channel 3 anchor Mort Crim. (Elise Amendola/AP Photo)

Ferrell says he studied former Philly anchor for Ron Burgundy character

The movie “Anchorman 2” comes out this week.  Star Will Ferrell says one of the lead characters was modeled on a former ...

13 years ago

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 Michael Griffin speaks with NBC10 after Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bensalem fired the teacher for applying for a marriage license in New Jersey.  (Image courtesy of NBC10)
Politics & Policy

Gay teacher’s firing might be both wrong and legal

The firing of Michael Griffin by Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bucks County was distressing. The private Catholic school fired ...

13 years ago

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