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The Philadelphia Housing Authority's headquarters. (Darryl Murphy/ WHYY)
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Philly Housing Authority officially opens new headquarters

New PHA building and an influx of workers is expected to continue boosting Ridge Avenue Corridor. Bella's Restaurant and Grill is already seeing a surge of customers.

7 years ago

Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. speaks at an anti-eviction rally, organized by Philadelphia Tenants Union, on Wednesday.
PlanPhilly
Housing

City gets behind ‘good cause’ eviction law, but with some reservations about next steps

The “good cause” eviction bill requiring landlords to have a reason — such as non-payment of rent — for ending a month-to-month lease.

7 years ago

A customer browses the shelves at Shakespeare & Co. in Center City. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Books
Business
Philadelphia

Independent bookstores are coming back in Philly, across the U.S.

Chain retailers are struggling, but there are many reasons why independent bookstores are thriving in Philly and other places across the U.S.

7 years ago

A police car sits at the entrance to Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., Saturday, Jan 19, 2019. A diocese in Kentucky apologized Saturday after videos emerged showing students from the Catholic boys' high school mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial on Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
National
Politics

Boys school shuts down amid fallout over Washington videos

Longer videos from wider perspectives emerged later over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.

7 years ago

Kensington High School biology teacher Victoria Erickson (right) and her friend Megan Nardi, work on a mural on Kensington High School's ground floor.
View Finders
K-12
Visual Arts

Volunteers paint 100 murals at Kensington High School for MLK Day

The goal was to brighten the atmosphere of the 102-year old school with 100 murals throughout the building.

7 years ago

Oneita Thompson prays next to her husband, Clive, left, inside the First United Methodist Church of Germantown on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. The couple is from Jamaica and has lived in the United States since 2004. They moved from their home in Cedarville, New Jersey, into the church last year, bringing their two youngest children, Christine, 16, and Timothy, 12, with them. (Heather Khalifa/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Immigration
Philadelphia

For a Jamaican couple, a broken asylum system makes church sanctuary both refuge and jail

The Thompsons are part of a small, but growing number of immigrants trying to avoid deportation by taking sanctuary in Philly.

7 years ago

Traffic on I-95 heads south toward Center City.
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Streets & Roads

Large tire fire in Philadelphia closes Betsy Ross Bridge, I-95

 A large tire fire in northeast Philadelphia sending dark smoke billowing into the air has closed the Betsy Ross Bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

7 years ago

Wilmington residents called for justice and peace in the 7th annual MLK Day Peace March. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware

Frigid weather doesn't stop Wilmington MLK Peace March

Braving frigid temperatures, about a hundred Wilmington residents took part in the 7th annual Martin Luther King Peace March calling for justice and racial harmony.

7 years ago

Listen 1:04
The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta is open for the first time in nearly a month, after a grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation made up for the lack of federal funds from the partial government shutdown.
(Jeff Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images)
NPR
History
National

Martin Luther King Jr. National Park reopens for holiday, thanks to a private grant

The deal allows the park to avoid the awkward possibility that it would be closed on the federal holiday honoring King.

7 years ago

The partially frozen Barnegat Bay on Jan. 21, 2019. (Image courtesy of the Harvey Cedars Police Department)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Keep off the partially frozen Barnegat Bay, police warn

Portions of the Barnegat Bay have frozen over the current Arctic blast, and that’s worrisome for officials.

7 years ago

Participants at the MLK Day of Service at Girard College create banners.
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

For Girard College’s MLK Day of Service, a focus on solutions to gun violence

The 24th annual Martin Luther King Day of Service at Girard College brought 4 to 5,000 volunteers to the historic school in North Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Quakertown Community High School (Google Maps)
K-12
Pennsylvania
Social Justice

After racist taunts, Quakertown students hold first MLK Day of service

Last year, Quakertown students taunted and threw rocks at students from the majority-black Cheltenham district. As a response, the district held its first MLK Day of Service.

7 years ago

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes his fist during a speech in Selma, Ala., Feb. 12, 1965. King was engaged in a battle with Sheriff Jim Clark over voting rights and voter registration in Selma. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Remembering Martin Luther King’s gift of rhetoric

As I prepared to celebrate the Martin Luther King holiday, I listened to a sermon King delivered in a little Baptist church in Chicago in 1967.

7 years ago

from left to right: Tracy K. Smith (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow), Mona Hanna-Attisha (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio), Nadine Burke Harris (courtesy of the author)
Radio Times
Public Health
Social Justice

Three stories of eloquence and activism

Marty speaks with poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. Then we hear from a pediatrician about the Flint water crisis. Finally, we'll hear about the effects of childhood adversity.

Air Date: January 21, 2019

Listen 50:06
The JBJ Soul Kitchen property in Red Bank. (Image courtesy of JBJ Soul Kitchen)
Down the Shore
Food & Drink
New Jersey

Bon Jovi’s restaurant to provide meals for furloughed federal workers, families

A restaurant owned by musician and New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi is providing free meals to government workers and their families during the federal government shutdown.

7 years ago

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