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When the Stop Hate for Profit campaign launched just two weeks ago, its organizers had not yet persuaded a single advertiser to boycott Facebook in July.

The 2020 Black National Convention will take place Aug. 28 via a live broadcast.

WHYY's Community Engagement Editor Christopher Norris leads a discussion on defunding the police & the future of public safety.

Loretta Weinberg decried the move as a “sneaky, backdoor” way to allow Liberty National Golf Course owner Paul Fireman to expand his private course into the state park.

Starting July 13, SEPTA rail riders will be able to tap in and out at card readers at stations and on platforms.

More than 2,700 detainees nationwide have tested positive, according to ICE data, and the Eloy detention facility is among the hardest hit by the pandemic.

With their emphasis on interactive exhibits, children’s museums must balance safety and survival in their decisions to reopen. Several have already permanently closed.

Nearly 50 people were locked in the shuttered jail two years after city officials deemed it unfit for human life.

The move by Facebook designates the extremist network as a dangerous organization similar to the Islamic State group and white supremacists, both of which are already banned.

Boosted unemployment checks have created a bizarre distortion in the labor market, where holding on to a job doesn't guarantee being financially better off than losing one.

Earlier in the day, neighborhood organizations attended a training on alternatives to policing.

Delaware was the last state to abolish the use of the whipping post as a form of legal punishment in 1972. Now the final remaining post on public display will be removed.

"Gender dysphoria is sorely misunderstood by society," Wissmath says, underscoring the role the experience plays for many, though not all, trans people.

In Philadelphia and around the country, people are complaining about loud, mysterious booms at night. Are they fireworks? ATM explosions? ... military PSYOPs?

The program will begin accepting applications July 6, but the state’s eviction moratorium expires just a few days later.