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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney speaks from behind a podium
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Philadelphia
Transportation

‘We’re ready when you’re ready’: SEPTA invites riders to return as Philly reopens

SEPTA and city officials invited riders to return after more than a year of shutdowns and restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

5 years ago

Players participate in the 19th annual Katie Kirlin Junior Wheelchair Basketball Tournament
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

Philly is closing the city’s only rec center designed for people with disabilities

The Fairmount Park building that’s home to Carousel House is damaged beyond repair, officials say.

5 years ago

John Rogers, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, stands for a Bloomberg Television spot in Atlantic City, N.J., July 22, 2013. Rogers tells NPR about the emotional and financial impact the Tulsa riots had on his family. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Business
History
Race & Ethnicity

How Tulsa race massacre shaped today’s most successful Black CEOs

Ariel Investments CEO John Rogers, TIAA CEO Thasunda Duckett, and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault reflect on what the Tulsa events has meant to them.

5 years ago

Morey’s Pier on the Wildwood Boardwalk advertises $15 an hour jobs on May 31, 2021, Memorial Day. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Economy
New Jersey

‘We gotta run around like rats’: Jersey Shore businesses still struggling to hire as season gets underway

The unofficial start of summer has arrived, but many businesses are having a hard time staffing up, leaving them frustrated as they face the rest of the season.

5 years ago

A car crashed into the Langhorne Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Center in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. (Screenshot via 6ABC)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
6ABC

1 dead after car crashes into Bucks Co. senior rehabilitation center

Authorities say a car slammed into an outside wall of the administration building of the Langhorne Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Center on the 300 block of Manor Avenue.

5 years ago

Artist Paul Rucker is creating a new multimedia work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. That's when a thriving African American community was destroyed in a horrific act of violence that wiped out hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes. Above, an aerial view of Tulsa, Okla., Fowler & Kelly, 1918. (GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
NPR
History
National
Race & Ethnicity

Artist’s Black Wall Street project is about Tulsa 100 years ago — and today

Paul Rucker's multimedia work tackles mass incarceration, lynching, police brutality and the ways America has been shaped by slavery.

5 years ago

Joel Spivak sits next to a WWI memorial
History
Military

Mysterious neighborhood war memorial reconnects WWI vet’s family

Powelton Village has been honoring its unknown WWI soldier for years. His descendants have now been found and will join the ceremony this year.

5 years ago

Supporters of the Asian-American community attend a Nationwide Day of Action rally Against anti-Asian violence
NPR
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

Amid growing anti-Asian racism, a call for more research into its health effects

Many Asian Americans live daily with the corrosive effects of racism and racialized violence, yet there's very little research funded on Asian American health.

5 years ago

Police take photos at the scene of a shooting outside a banquet hall, with evidence markers seen on the ground
Gun Violence
National
Public Safety

Police: 2 dead, 20+ injured in Florida banquet hall shooting

The banquet hall had been rented out for a concert. Police say three people got out of an SUV and opened fire into a crowd outside with assault rifles and handguns.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks at a Memorial Day event
Delaware
Military
Politics

‘Toughest day of the year’: Biden remembers son Beau, speaks at Memorial Day ceremony in Delaware

President Joe Biden has attended the annual observance at the Delaware Memorial Bridge for decades. He returned Sunday for his first as commander-in-chief.

5 years ago

The location of the sawmill at Peter Wentz Farmstead
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Historic Montgomery County farmstead recognized as an Underground Railroad site

The Worcester Township property will join more than 680 other places in the National Park Service’s Network to Freedom database.

5 years ago

In this Thursday, May 27, 2021 file photo, Darius Kirk looks at a mural depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre in the historic Greenwood neighborhood ahead of centennial commemorations of the massacre in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/John Locher)
History
National
Race & Ethnicity

How Tulsa massacre spent most of last century unremembered

Even this year, with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre recognized, it’s still an unfamiliar history to many — something historians say has broader repercussions.

5 years ago

Carnival Cruise Line ships docked at the Port of Tampa in Tampa, Fla., in March 2020 following the CDC coronavirus No Sail Order. A Celebrity Cruises ship has received CDC permission to operate the first cruise from a U.S. port since the No Sail Order. (Chris O'Meara/AP Photo)
NPR
Public Health
Transportation
Travel

The buffet can stay: What the future of the cruise line industry looks like

Now, emboldened by the CDC's green light and a pent-up demand, the industry has high hopes for a quick recovery.

5 years ago

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development
New Jersey
Transportation

Ferry link means big business for beach towns in Delaware and New Jersey

New study shows the multi-million dollar impact the Cape May/Lewes Ferry has on the local economy — an impact beach businesses hope ramps up post-pandemic.

5 years ago

A Southwest Airlines plane, seen in November 2020. A flight attendant for Southwest was allegedly struck by a passenger and lost two teeth in the latest in a rash of violent attacks on planes. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
NPR
Transportation
Travel

The FAA has seen a ‘significantly higher’ number of unruly passenger reports in 2021

The number of unruly passengers on U.S flights has taken off in 2021, with many more people boarding planes as the pandemic eases.

5 years ago

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