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Jimmy Driadon is captain of the Greater Overbook String Band. 2020 marks his 70th parade. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia

Seven decades a mummer: 84-year-old still strutting after all these years

He started as a 14 year old in South Philly in 1950. Since, he’s seen the mummer tradition go through many changes.

6 years ago

Philadelphian Gilbert Hilton has decorated his car with thousands of dollars worth of household items. (Tim Tai/ The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Why
Philadelphia

The people who make Philly Philly

What do a full-time viking impersonator, a pioneering female sushi chef and a man who can't stop decorating his car have in common? They're all Philadelphians.

Air Date: January 1, 2020

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A 5-pound newborn girl is swaddled in a blanket in a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. She was born on Jan. 1, 2020. (Diaa Hadid)
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Home & Family
Kids

UNICEF estimates 400,000 babies will be born on New Year’s Day

UNICEF says the Pacific island nation of Fiji will most likely have delivered 2020's first baby

6 years ago

A group of mummers parading in Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Mummers Parade 2020: Philly’s New Year tradition brings the party to the streets

6 years ago

Mother and daughter duo Brittany and Marcel Maldonado took their bakery food truck business Milk + Sugar on the road in 2013. (Abdul R. Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Business
Economic Development
Food & Drink
The Philadelphia Tribune

Mother and daughter duo to open bakery in South Philadelphia

When Marcel and Brittany Maldonado were laid off from their respective jobs several years ago, they turned their passion for baking into a full-time business venture.

6 years ago

Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding (right) looks at a piece of harvesting equipment with Jason Forrester of Forrester Farm Equipment in Chambersburg, Pa. Redding was giving a tour at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex on Monday, December 30, 2019. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Pennsylvania

2020 Pennsylvania Farm Show highlights opportunities for the future of farming

About 585,000 Pennsylvanians work in agriculture, but only half those jobs are directly tied to the farm.

6 years ago

Kids at the Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library celebrate “Noon Year’s Eve” by playing with a parachute. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Kids
Philadelphia

Noon Year’s Eve parties for tots gain new fans in Philly

If you can’t stay up till midnight to welcome the new year, just have your apple juice toast at noon with fellow tots.

6 years ago

A Mummer in 2019; Judges gather for a lunch before the 2020 parade MICHAEL REEVES; MICHAELA WINBERG / BILLY PENN
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

City to Mummers judges: Please be nicer

No more doling out zeroes, urged the longtime director of Philly’s historic parade.

6 years ago

A Coast Guard on approach to a cruise ship off New Jersey Saturday night. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Joshua Mitcheltree)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Coast Guard hoists sick man from cruise ship off N.J.

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 70-year-old man who fell ill on a cruise ship off New Jersey on Saturday night.

6 years ago

Working Families Party candidate for City Council-at-large Kendra Brooks, at East Passyunk Recreation Center in South Philly on Election Day. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Radio Times
Race & Ethnicity
Sports

Regional Roundup 12/30

This week: the ongoing battle over Neshaminy High School's team name, the Redskins, Philadelphia City Councilmember-elect Kendra Brooks, and the Eagles' big game.

Air Date: December 30, 2019 10:00 am

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Visual artist and filmmaker Michelle Angela Ortiz hosts a screening and memorial service dedicated to Maria Martinez Nolasco at PhillyCAM. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Immigration
Pennsylvania

Three years after famous hunger strike, las Madres Berks reunite to grieve one of their own

After spending nearly two years in the Berks Family Residential Center, Maria Martinez Nolasco was released. Then she was killed.

6 years ago

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People attend the visitation service for Margie Reckard at La Paz Faith Center in El Paso, Texas, in August 2019. She was killed in white supremacist attack that targeted Latinos at a Walmart. (Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
National
Race & Ethnicity

2019 Brought stepped-up efforts to counter white supremacist violence

The torch-wielding racists who marched on Charlottesville, Va., two years ago showed the ugly new face of the far right.

6 years ago

An image of Ow Luen from his file, originally held at the USCIS, now available at the National Archives. (Grant Din/National Archives)
NPR
History
Immigration

Tracing your family’s roots may soon get a lot more expensive

Dec. 30 is the deadline to submit a comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over a proposed fee hike to access some records.

6 years ago

Patients line up for remote health consultation sessions on a remote island near Rangpur, Bangladesh. (Allison Joyce for NPR)
NPR
International
Media

The global stories of 2019 that you probably missed

Sure, everybody thinks it's great when a story is read by many hundreds of thousands of folks. That's definitely a success.

6 years ago

Paul Collins-Hackett works at Youth Opportunity Office in Albany, N.Y.  Collins-Hackett draws on his own personal or family struggles to help young people get through theirs. (Richard Beaven for NPR)
NPR
Income Inequality

‘Somebody’s on my side’: 3 men who escaped poverty help others find a way out

Paul Collins-Hackett sits in Albany's Youth Opportunity Office trying to guide a teenage boy through the ins and outs of getting a job.

6 years ago

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