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Here! Now! In the moment! Paddling in the middle of a fast moving stream of news and information. Here & Now is a daily news magazine, bringing you the news that breaks after "Morning Edition" and before "All Things Considered."

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AMC pushes back movie theater reopening by 2 weeks

The company said Monday that it would open approximately 450 U.S. locations on July 30 and the remaining 150 the following week.

5 years ago

The Ladybug Festival
Delaware
Performing Arts
Public Health

Del. coronavirus recovery: Wilmington’s Ladybug Festival goes virtual as COVID cases climb

The Ladybug Festival in Wilmington, Del. is going virtual tonight to raise money for female artists facing financial hardship in the midst of COVID-19.

5 years ago

The Mercer Museum in Doylestown (Provided by Bucks County Historical Society)
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History
Pennsylvania

A virtual tour of ‘every thing it took to make America’

In the next installment of "Why didn’t I go there?," The Why's Shai Ben-Yaacov and his 10-year-old son take a virtual tour of the time capsule that is the Mercer Museum.

Air Date: June 29, 2020

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Abdelmgeed Muhammad Elgamel stands outside of his produce market on Allegheny Avenue in Kensington. (Brad Larrison/WHYY)
Business
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. coronavirus recovery: Daily COVID case counts in Philly no longer falling

Farley warned that spikes in other states could push rates up again in Pennsylvania, and said the City “will be cautious about any further restarting of activities.”

5 years ago

The Louisiana Monument raises up near the rebel encampment on Seminary Ridge on the Gettysburg battlefield, July 1, 2013, the 150th anniversary of the first day of the historic 1863 battle. (Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com)
History
Military
Race & Ethnicity
PA Post

National Park Service: Confederate monuments at Gettysburg an ‘important part of the cultural landscape,’ will not be removed

The statement describes the Confederate monuments as representing an “important, if controversial, chapter in our nation’s history.”

5 years ago

Police tape blocks an entrance to Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Radio Times
K-12
Sports

Regional Roundup – 06/29/2020

This week; taking the police out of Philadelphia schools, what next school year might look like in Camden, and what will come of Phillies baseball?

Air Date: June 29, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
Business
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Indoor dining is on pause

A combination of spikes in other states and “knucklehead behavior” seen in the state has prompted officials to pause the resumption of indoor dining.

5 years ago

Eréndira Zamacona
Keystone Crossroads
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
Public Health

‘Green’ doesn’t mean ‘go’: Pa. workers weigh risks, benefits of job reopenings

For people with child care and health issues, the prospect of returning to their jobs raises some very tough choices.

5 years ago

Listen 4:46
Bail funds in the Philadelphia area and beyond are seeing more people dip into their wallets as the protests continue against police brutality and racism. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Social Justice

Racial justice organizations report a bump in donations. Will the moment last?

Organizations in the Philadelphia area and beyond are seeing more people dip into their wallets as the protests continue against police brutality and racism.

5 years ago

Listen 3:35
Mamie Brown and her son Edward
NPR
Gender
Income Inequality

How coronavirus could widen the gender wage gap

Women have slowly made economic gains over the last half-century, and the gender wage gap is as narrow as it has ever been. But coronavirus could reverse those gains.

5 years ago

Dr. William Strudwick
NPR
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Black doctors say pandemic reveals enduring racial inequity medicine alone cannot fix

Three African American ER physicians in Washington, D.C. recount experiences on their wards, where Black patients make up the vast majority of the city’s COVID-19 fatalities.

5 years ago

Black Philly Radical Collective Free Them All Protest
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Protesters in West Philly call for release of radical Black activists who ‘fought’ Rizzo

Roughly 200 protesters at a rally in West Philly called for the release of radical Black activists who’ve served decades in prison for killing white police officers.

5 years ago

Jeremiah Ellison, Kandace Montgomery and Arianna Nason are among those leading the push to dismantle the Minneapolis police department. (Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for NPR)
NPR
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

These are the Minneapolis activists leading the push to abolish the police

It took less than two weeks after George Floyd's killing for Minneapolis City Council to pledge to end the police department. Activists had been laying groundwork for years.

5 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

Banner plane goes down in ocean off Long Beach Island

A banner plane went down in the ocean Saturday afternoon in Surf City, authorities say. 

5 years ago

A dancer known by the professional name Tabz poses with a dance pole at Malcolm X Park. She is a leader of the group Stiletto, which held an event in the park to advocate for better working conditions for dancers and sex workers. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Social Justice

In fourth week of protests, calls for better conditions for strip club workers

STILETTOS, a group demanding better health and safety inside Philly’s strip clubs, is coordinating aid for sex workers.

5 years ago

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