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Alida Garcia’s son lost his life in 2015 when a gunman fired into his car with a semi-automatic weapon. She demanded leadership ban assault weapons. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philly mother decries ‘a slow-moving massacre in our city’ after latest mass shootings

Aleida Garcia’s son was murdered in 2015. She spoke at Tuesday’s anti-violence rally in LOVE Park following two mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

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Sonny Hill of 94 WIP has been working in radio for 50 years. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Staying power: Sonny Hill celebrates 50 years in the broadcasting industry

The host of "In the Living Room," which airs Sundays on 94WIP Sportsradio, spoke to WHYY’s “Morning Edition” host Jennifer Lynn about breaking new ground.

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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is pictured here in this 2012 file photo (Alfred A. Knopf)

Toni Morrison’s former Princeton students remember her strong, warm presence

The Nobel laureate’s wisdom and warmth influenced the Princeton University campus and students.

6 years ago

About 200 protesters hold a vigil outside the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport. Despite being told that they would risk arrest if they stepped out into the street, eighteen demonstrators decided to sit in the road. Police officers stand by. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
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Pa. ICE detainee stops her own deportation with a phone call

A 27-year-old Salvadoran woman detained by ICE at the Berks Family Residential Center was being deported — until she was allowed to make a call.

6 years ago

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Delaware receivee a $2.6 million grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation to purchase or lease zero-emission and low-emission transit buses. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
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Delaware officials want to make riding the bus ‘sexy’ with new electric fleet

Delaware aims to reduce carbon emissions by increasing its fleet of electric buses with help from a new federal grant.

6 years ago

In this June 25, 2016, file photo, Cub Scouts watch a race during the Second Annual World Championship Pinewood Derby in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Public Safety

Boy Scouts of America faces new sex abuse allegations, Pa. lawsuit reveals

A Pa. man filed suit in Philadelphia against the Boy Scouts of America, alleging sexual abuse. It may be the first of hundreds of lawsuits to come nationwide.

6 years ago

The 25th Street bay beach in Barnegat Light. (Google image)
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Environment
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For third straight week, N.J. bay beach under advisory due to excessive fecal bacteria

For the third consecutive week, a Barnegat Bay beach in northern Long Beach Island is under a swimming advisory issued Tuesday afternoon.

6 years ago

A scene from the 2019 BlackStar Film Festival Best Feature Narrative Award winner 'Selah and the Spades,' directed by Tayarisha Poe (Provided)
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The Philadelphia Tribune

BlackStar Film Fest 2019 wraps up and announces awardees

The 2019 BlackStar Film Festival, held in various venues throughout the city, recently concluded, and award winners at the prestigious cinema showcase have been announced.

6 years ago

Orb weaver spider at Spring Garden Station. (Note: Dramatization. Not actual size.) (Max Marin/Billy Penn illustration)
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Philadelphia
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Billy Penn

Terrifying orb-weaver spiders have returned to the Spring Garden El stop

Upside: Experts say they’re not harmful to humans.

6 years ago

Some of the trash on Alisha Ebling's block. (Alisha Ebling for Billy Penn)
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

I love Philadelphia, but I might leave because of trash

The litter piles on Alisha Ebling’s North Philly street are out of control.

6 years ago

Grand opening of the SEAMAAC Computer Literacy Lab, Thursday Nov. 3, 2016, inside the SEAMAAC Community Outreach Office in South Philadelphia.  (Joseph Kaczmarek/Comcast)
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Comcast expands low-cost internet, along with learning programs that actually work

The media giant gave out $1 million for digital literacy workshops in Philly last year.

6 years ago

Members of the group Human Rights Coalition speak at a rally Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 at Department of Corrections headquarters in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
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Pa. prison reform group calls for end to ‘long-term’ solitary confinement

Human Rights Coalition is pushing for the passage of a bill that would limit how long a person can be held in solitary confinement.

6 years ago

Toni Morrison
NPR
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Toni Morrison, whose soaring novels were rooted in black lives, dies at 88

Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, according to her publisher Penguin Random House.

6 years ago

A gate keeps off-road drivers away from the Jemima Mount site
Environment
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NJ Spotlight

Off-road drivers still battling conservationists over access to Pinelands

It's been three years since the DEP scrapped its Motorized Access Plan that would have sharply reduced the number of Pinelands roads and trails that could be legally used.

6 years ago

Chester Made Artistic Director Devon Walls leads the crowd in a robust song as Chester Made workshop leader Sistah Mafalda accompanies with African drumming during the Chester Made and Mandela Washington Fellowship Exchange 2019. (Greg Irvin)
Changing Communities
Performing Arts
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Using art to transform a community

Chester has been written off by people more times than anyone would care to count. Except for the people who call Chester home. For us, we see promise where others see peril.

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