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Kendall Stephens
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

After surviving a brutal attack, Kendall Stephens wants to help trans people citywide

The 34-year-old public health student hopes to go into local government.

6 years ago

A worshipper wears an
Radio Times
Politics
Religion
Social Justice

Politics and piety: Trump’s relationship with white evangelicals

How did the President, whose rhetoric about women and minorities is often violent, become the party of Christians who claim to love their neighbors as themselves?

Air Date: September 8, 2020

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Homeless encampment on Ben Franklin Parkway
Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Homeless mothers squat federal housing sites as encampment deadline looms

Several dozen families moved into boarded-up Philadelphia Housing Authority properties. The protest encampments face a Wednesday deadline.

6 years ago

Listen 7:38
Barbara Lovett, Doug Lovett, August Muzzi
Business
Delaware
Economic Development

Applications set to open for Delaware COVID-19 relief fund

The Division of Small Business will begin accepting applications online starting Tuesday at 10 a.m.

6 years ago

Cha'Ron and his brother Dallas
Business
New Jersey
Public Health

‘We had lines, mobs’: Labor Day weekend is the busiest of the summer for Seaside Heights

The Jersey Shore town experienced a slow start, but the sunny, warm weather this Labor Day weekend helped to draw people out for one last summer hurrah.

6 years ago

LaQuicia Charnell at Masked Melanin Market
Business
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity

Camden’s Masked Melanin Market provides a breath of fresh air for Black businesses

Tawanda Jones created an open-air market for Black entrepreneurs in Camden to showcase their wares and support each other while social distancing.

6 years ago

Dee Dunn
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Public Health

Hundreds of workers rally for pandemic protections at Philadelphia City Hall

The group is demanding personal protective equipment, access to COVID-19 testing, hazard pay, no cuts to public services and no more layoffs.

6 years ago

A demonstrator is pepper-sprayed July 30 shortly before being arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest
NPR
National
Policing

Review of federal charges in Portland unrest shows most are misdemeanors

That finding by NPR is in stark contrast to the Trump administration's description of the Oregon city as being under siege by radical leftists.

6 years ago

Jacob Blake
NPR
National
Policing

Jacob Blake shares bedside video from hospital: ‘Every 24 hours there’s pain’

Blake spoke about recovery and community from his hospital bed after being shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wis. last month.

6 years ago

Anti-Trump protesters take to the streets after a rally at Independence Mall. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Social Justice

‘No more fire and fury’: Group aimed at ousting Trump rallies in Philadelphia

The group Refuse Fascism is promising nonviolent protests from now until Election Day on Nov. 3.

6 years ago

In this July 20, 2020, file photo, Audrey Reed, 8, holds up a sing through the sunroof of a car during a rally in Los Angeles. Ahead of Labor Day, major U.S. labor unions say they are considering work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
National
Social Justice

Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice

Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

6 years ago

The annual town meeting in North Andover, Mass., which dates back to 1646, was held outside on June 16 on a high school football field to help keep participants a safe distance from each other.
(Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
NPR
National
Public Health

Photos: A summer of social distance

Celebrations, milestones and daily routines happen whether we're ready or not, and Summer 2020 was no different. As Americans sought relief in a pandemic, they got creative.

6 years ago

Atlantic City, N.J. Mayor Marty Small holds a news conference on his city's Boardwalk
New Jersey
Social Justice

Compromise keeps ‘Black Lives Matter’ paint off Atlantic City boardwalk

Mayor Marty Small and protest organizer Steve Young picked up roller paint brushes and helped write those words on the pavement of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

6 years ago

A Philadelphia firefighter stands in front of a charred rowhouse after a deadly blaze in Kensington. (NBC10)
Neighborhoods
Public Safety
NBC10

Mother, 3 kids dead after fire rips through Kensington home

Firefighters were dispatched to the 3300 block of Kip Street shortly before 8 a.m. and found flames and smoke billowing from the first and second floors of the house.

6 years ago

Watu Moja is an arts nonprofit in Camden, New Jersey. (Screenshot via YouTube)
New Jersey
Social Justice

‘We’re going to claim our space’: How Watu Moja is advancing social justice in Camden

Camden has received national attention as a model for community policing, but many residents have been critical of this praise. The members of Watu Moja are among them.

6 years ago

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