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The Great Beech tree in Philadelphia
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Environment
Outdoors
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Preservation
Eyes on the Street

A certified ‘champion,’ Philly’s Great Beech is dying, over 150 years after it was planted

Philadelphia’s champion tree, The Great Beech, measured above 100 feet tall, making it the tallest of its kind in the United States. It’s slowly dying.

5 years ago

Washington Wizards' Bradley Beal, right, tries to get past Philadelphia 76ers' Ben Simmons during the second half of Game 5 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Philadelphia
Sports

Without Embiid, 76ers roll past Wizards and into 2nd round

Rest up, Joel Embiid.

With an NBA title still in sight, the 76ers will need their injured franchise center — healthy and ready to roll — in the second round against Atlanta.

5 years ago

The Biden's beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Google maps)
Delaware
Streets & Roads

Another ‘Biden backup’ in Delaware with his first presidential trip to Rehoboth Beach home

After spending the Memorial Day weekend at home in Wilmington, President Biden returns to Delaware for his first stay as president at his home in Rehoboth Beach.

5 years ago

A protester calls out to police standing guard behind security fencing
Black Lives Matter
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

A year later, racial reckoning yields uncertainty in giving

Though discussion about increasing diversity in all aspects of American life goes on and some changes have been adopted, advocates so far see little systemic progress.

5 years ago

Members of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Crime Scene Unit are pictured behind crime scene tape
Gun Violence
Media
Philadelphia

‘Mad or nah?’: Residents react to Philly Weekly’s gun violence contest

Tamara Russell, aka P.O.C., hit the streets to see how residents feel about Philly Weekly’s gun violence contest, which asks readers to guess the city’s homicide total.

5 years ago

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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks with the news media outside of the Little Haiti Cultural Center, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Miami. Mayorkas met with community leaders following the announcement of a new 18-month designation for Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Pa. Haitian community hails temporary protected status, questions immigration future

Haitians in Pennsylvania are celebrating a move by President Joe Biden’s administration that effectively reverses another immigration policy of former President Donald Trump.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney speaks from behind a podium
PlanPhilly
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

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