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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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PHL Pride Collective volunteers. (Courtesy of PHL Pride Collective)
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LGBTQ
Philadelphia

A ‘reimagined’ Pride weekend is coming back to Philly in June: Here’s what to expect

After two years without a Pride festival in Philadelphia, the weekend-long celebration of the LGBTQ+ community is returning in June.

4 years ago

A man puts flower on his wife's grave at Calvary Cemetery on May 10, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York City. Mother's Day can be a painful time, especially for people living with loss. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)
NPR
Community Events
Explainers

Mother’s Day can be painful. These strategies might help

Mother's Day can be a painful time, especially for people living with loss. Author Rebecca Soffer shares ideas for how to care for yourself or loved ones on a difficult day.

4 years ago

The Frankford Library has been closed partially or entirely 10 times in the past two months due to staff shortages (Asha Prihar/Billy Penn)
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Philadelphia
Billy Penn

With ‘significant’ $10 million funding boost, Free Library forecasts stable five-day-a-week service and major hiring spree

There’s no timeline yet for the improvements — and advocates are pressing for more.

4 years ago

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Home & Family
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Safety
6abc

Philadelphia officials investigate after 3-story home partially collapses in Manayunk

L&I has declared the property structurally unsound. The homeowner has 30 days to demolish or repair the home.

4 years ago

The Philadelphia Phlash bus. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Transportation
Travel

Philly Phlash tourist bus is back in operation

The bus line specifically designed to help tourists avoid the confusion of Philadelphia’s mass transit system is back in business.

4 years ago

A closeup of detailing on Philly row houses
Economic Development
Housing
Income Inequality
Real Estate

Philly relaunches $10,000 home assistance program for first-time buyers

The money from the city’s Division of Housing and Community Development will help first-time buyers with a down payment or closing costs.

4 years ago

Dresses donated by sexual assault survivors from Amish and other plain-dressing religious groups hang on a clothesline beneath a description of each survivors' age and church affiliation, on Friday, April 29, 2022, in Leola, Pa. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

What they wore: Amish Country exhibit spotlights sex abuse

The moving display challenged the myth that sexual assault can be blamed on what a victim was wearing.

4 years ago

Smoke rises from the steel plant in Mariupol where heavy fighting is taking place.
Government
International
Military

United Nations races to rescue civilians from Mariupol plant

The effort comes even as fighters holed up at the sprawling complex made their last stand to prevent Moscow’s complete takeover of the strategic port.

4 years ago

Aerial view of the Vine Street Expressway on a sunny day.
History
Infrastructure
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

How the construction of the Vine Street Expressway uncovered lost Black burial grounds

The highway runs over a pair of cemeteries ran by the First African Baptist Church, which served a congregation of free Black people in the pre-Civil War era.

4 years ago

A Philadelphia police officer walks past the scene of a shooting in LOVE Park. A 29-year-old man was killed. A security guard for Christmas Village has been charged
Crime
Gun Violence
Public Safety

Everyone’s trying to solve Philly’s gun violence crisis. Is more collaboration the answer?

Four Philly nonprofits originally planned gun violence prevention events on the Saturday before Mother’s Day.

4 years ago

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Interfaith leaders, youth mentors, law enforcement representatives and elected officials spoke at an anti-gun violence rally at City Hall Thursday. Mothers in Charge, a nonprofit led by mothers who've lost children to gunfire, organized the event. (Sammy Caiola/WHYY)
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Public Safety

As Mother’s Day approaches, grieving moms plead for gun violence solutions

Mothers in Charge, a nonprofit led by moms who’ve lost children to gun violence, gathered at City Hall to push for more action on Phily’s gun violence crisis.

4 years ago

An empty SEPTA train car.
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
Transportation

SEPTA moves uniformed ambassadors into place to help with riders with no destination

The ambassadors work will work with those who need social services and have already prevented nearly 200 fare evaders from riding the SEPTA vehicles.

4 years ago

Remnants of a house foundation after the structure was swept away in a flash flood as remnants of Hurricane Ida moved through the region in Lambertville, N.J.
Environment
Housing
New Jersey

Lambertville residents still recovering from Ida as New Jersey announces more federal aid

While some Lambertville residents are hopeful that a $50 million federal investment into New Jersey’s Blue Acres program will help, others hope more will come.

4 years ago

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 4, 2022.
International
Military
Politics

Mariupol steel mill battle rages as Ukraine repels attacks

Fighting is raging at the besieged steel plant in Mariupol as Russian forces attempt to finish off the city’s last-ditch defenders and complete the capture of the port city.

4 years ago

The Philadelphia skyline behind Eakins Oval. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Government Accountability
Outdoors
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

Philly drops to 32nd place on national ParkScore index, because of funding cuts

The Kenney admin is boosting the Parks & Rec budget this year, but advocates say it’s not enough.

4 years ago

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