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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

Play On Philly acquires the Marian Anderson Award

The annual award given to a high-profile entertainer for their social impact will now be administered by an after-school music education program.

4 years ago

File photo: Food trucks line Locust Street at a 2016 Dining Out for Life pop-up. (Image courtesy of Laura Weber)
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

After two-year hiatus, Philly’s Dining Out For Life fundraiser for those affected by HIV relaunches

The annual night of dining out in Philadelphia to support services for people living with HIV is back in person this year after a hiatus during the pandemic.

4 years ago

Police officers detain a woman in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Shocked Russians turned out by the thousands Thursday to decry their country's invasion of Ukraine as emotional calls for protests grew on social media. Some 1,745 people in 54 Russian cities were detained, at least 957 of them in Moscow.
Politics & Policy

Anti-war sentiment grows in Russia despite government crackdown

At least 460 people in 34 Russian cities were detained Saturday over anti-war protests. Thousands of Russians also signed open letters condemning the invasion of Ukraine.

4 years ago

Rev. Al Sharpton, left, president of the National Action Network (NAN), and Mayor Eric Adams, right, stand next to Sybrina Fulton, center, the mother of Trayvon Martin, as she address a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of her son’s killing, Saturday Feb. 26, 2022, at NAN’s Harlem headquarters in New York. “Today is a bittersweet day,” said Fulton, who with her family created the Trayvon Martin Foundation to raise awareness of gun violence
Community

Trayvon Martin’s mother: ‘Don’t give up’ fight for justice

Sybrina Fulton attended Saturday's meeting of the National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton in New York City.

4 years ago

File photo: This Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, file photo shows the Las Vegas skyline.  (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Community

14 shot at Vegas hookah parlor; 1 dead and 2 critically hurt

Las Vegas police say 14 people were shot before dawn at a hookah parlor and that one man died and two people suffered critical injuries.

4 years ago

File photo: In this file photo dated Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Politics & Policy

Chelsea’s Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich hands over ‘stewardship’ of soccer club

The move came after a member of the British parliament called for the Russian billionaire to hand over the club in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

4 years ago

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Bullet pierces window of Philadelphia Police Internal Affairs building late Friday night

Police say a bullet pierced the window of Internal Affairs, nobody inside was injured.

4 years ago

A Polish border guard assists refugees from Ukraine as they arrive to Poland at the Korczowa border crossing, Poland, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022
Politics & Policy

Fleeing to the border: Over 150,000 Ukrainians seek refuge

The U.N. refugee agency said Saturday that over 150,000 people have fled into neighboring countries. A spokeswoman says "the numbers and the situation is changing minute by mi

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks as he announces Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Cross Hall of the White House, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Washington
Politics & Policy

State of the Union: Biden speech comes amid crises, setbacks

Traditionally, State of the Union speeches focus on domestic issues, but Biden could also use this one to outline the stakes of the crisis in Ukraine.

4 years ago

Ukrainian troops inspect the site following a Russian airstrike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022
Politics & Policy

Russian troops zero in on Kyiv as 150,000 Ukrainians flee

Small groups of Russian soldiers were reported Saturday in the capital, where the quiet was sporadically pierced by the sound of gunfire.

4 years ago

The exterior of George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County
Courts & Law

Delco to take back George W. Hill Correctional Facility from for-profit operators in April

This transition of operations takes place on the day the $259 million contract with prison operator, GEO Group, is officially terminated.

4 years ago

A boat sails on the Delaware River in view of the Walt Whitman Bridge, in Philadelphia, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021
Community

Got an idea to address the impacts of climate change along the Delaware? You could win money to make it happen

The Penn initiative has produced projects including a giant Brita filter for the Schuylkill River and a kids book about friendly river creatures.

4 years ago

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, in her office conference room at the court in Washington
Courts & Law

Legal professionals in the Philadelphia region celebrate Supreme Court nominee

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman nominated to the nation’s highest court. Local attorneys, judges and law students revel in the historic moment.

4 years ago

Three of Deepwater Wind's five turbines stand in the water off Block Island
Politics & Policy

Offshore wind leases top $4 billion for coastal New Jersey and New York

The Biden Administration’s first offshore wind lease sales topped $4 billion for 488,000 acres, blowing away previous records.

4 years ago

File photo: A sign requiring masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus is posted on a store front in Philadelphia, on Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Health

Pennsylvania expected to follow CDC relaxation of mask guidance

The CDC loosened its mask guidelines Friday — and Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter says the state will likely follow.

4 years ago

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