
Community
U.S. Squash finds a new home in Philly with plans to create a public school league
With its large new facility at Drexel University, U.S. Squash said it plans to do community outreach to draw young people into the sport.
4 years ago
‘Wow, Mom’: Claire Smith reflects on new sports media center at Temple bearing her name
Claire Smith discusses on the road to this new honor with another barrier-breaking Black woman sports journalist, WHYY’s Annette John-Hall.
4 years ago
Listen 4:58Confronting the Crisis: Gun violence
WHYY and 6ABC team up for a community conversation about Philadelphia’s gun violence.
4 years ago
Philadelphia Fire Department receives some key federal grants to help save lives
Philadelphia has received two federal grants designed to help fight fires and keep firefighters safe.
4 years ago
How is the ‘Great Resignation’ affecting your day-to-day life?
Help us better understand the ways the pandemic has hampered the services that you count on and let us know.
4 years ago
‘Medicine is an unstable field’: Jefferson shooting reveals precarity of hospital work
Under immense pressure and staffing shortages, the shooting of a nursing assistant by one of his colleagues at Jefferson Hospital is the latest burden for health care workers.
4 years ago
Historic gun violence sparks calls for more policing along Philly’s commercial corridors
Philadelphia continues to witness a historic surge in gun violence, putting business owners and shoppers on edge.
4 years ago
Minority Enterprise Week kicks off in Philly with call for businesses to invest in communities
Some 40 in-person and virtual events are planned through Friday to help give businesses owned by women and people and color the resources they need to grow.
4 years ago
ACCT Philly sees spike in surrendered pets due to evictions, vet shortage
The shelter says it has seen swarms of people dropping off pets. Some are due to evictions, while others are due to a mix of financial and medical reasons.
4 years ago
Kate Scott makes Philly sports history tonight as first woman to call a Sixers game
She’s only the second woman to hold the role across the NBA.
4 years ago
PennEast opponents say community activism was key to beating pipeline
Lawmakers, pushed by public opposition, pressed regulators to cancel the project before the company threw in the towel.
4 years ago
Is the school bus driver shortage getting any better? With long wait times for testing and licenses, and more families driving kids to school every day - experts hope it is.
Air Date: October 4, 2021 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Ex-Facebook manager alleges social network fed Capitol riot
Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble-rousing after Biden defeated Trump in last year’s elections, a whistleblower alleges.
4 years ago
New push for continued growth in bioscience employers, jobs in Delaware
DuPont no longer holds the sway it once did over Delaware’s economy, but its legacy of thousands of scientists has the state’s bioscience sector prepped for growth.
4 years ago
Alain LeRoy Locke, credited with ushering in the Harlem Renaissance through his 1925 anthology, “The New Negro,” is honored with a marker in Philly.
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