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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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 'Religious Diversity in the Workplace' panelists, from left: Nicole Diroff, Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia; Rue Landau, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations and the Fair Housing Commission; Kameelah Rashad, Muslim WellnessFoundation; Cecily Carel, Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy. (Susan Richardson/for NewsWorks)

The new age of HR, beyond accommodating religious practices

“Human Resources” — the term probably trips off your tongue, it’s such a natural part of our work worlds. I was at an ...

10 years ago

 U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger speaks in March about the Department of Justice recommendations for reforming the use of deadly force by police in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Policing

Police officers and the people they protect must make closer bonds

As the United States becomes more diverse, the role of the police becomes more dynamic and challenging, but I believe we have moved too far from the original intent.

10 years ago

 Pope Francis arrives at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. The Pope will spend the last two of his six days in the U.S. in Philadelphia as the star attraction at the World Meeting of Families, a conference for more than 18,000 people from around the world that has been underway as the pope traveled to Washington and New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Philadelphia

Five things Philly officials learned from Pope Francis’ visit

It’s been more than a month since Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia, when talk of traffic boxes and fences ruled the local ...

10 years ago

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 Officers stand near the 14th district police station on Haines Street in Philadelphia. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks, file)
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Philadelphia
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Community Policing 101: A safer neighborhood requires neighbor involvement

The foundation of community policing rests upon three building blocks: community leaders, community participation, and governmental agencies.

10 years ago

 Mayor-elect Jim Kenney introduces his transition team which includes Pennsylvania Rep. Dwight Evans. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Mayor-elect Kenney’s transition team meets the press

The day after mayor-elect Jim Kenney released the names of all members of his massive transition team, he brought some of them to meet th ...

10 years ago

Mayor-elect Kenney revisits school to reiterate plan for citywide pre-K [photos]

The day after winning the Philadelphia mayor’s race, Jim Kenney returned to a public elementary school he visited on the campaign t ...

10 years ago

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 A Starbucks customer multitasks. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Your email is killing your multitasking productivity

You’re hunkered down at your computer working on a spreadsheet or a meeting outline or a legal brief or poetry. You hit a thicket i ...

10 years ago

Anti-violence group releases rap video for Murray Bailey

Campaign raps are definitely becoming a thing in Philadelphia. Ori Feibush ...

10 years ago

 Th author's Mt. Airy block (Anndee Hochman/for NewsWorks)
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Neighborhoods
Philadelphia

Love thy neighbors — because you can’t divorce them

We knew the neighbors had become true friends when they came to help us say goodbye to the old refrigerator. Here’s the stor ...

10 years ago

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Parker Kitterman rehearses with the choir at Christ Church. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Requiem premier expresses bottomless grief of gun violence

Music can speak to the yearnings that grief leaves inside us in a way that words alone cannot. I recently found another reminder of that ...

10 years ago

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Mental Health

Making work work across the generations

Baby Boomers remember the Spencer Tracy Kathryn Hepburn movie Desk Set – their characters clash over a giant computer and its place in ...

Air Date: October 26, 2015

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 Philadelphia mayoral candidates Melissa Murray Bailey and Jim Kenney debate Monday night at Temple University. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly mayoral candidates spar over luring new jobs and expanding port

Philadelphia’s Democratic mayoral nominee Jim Kenney has been careful not to publicly take his party’s 7-to-1 voter registrat ...

10 years ago

 Elizabeth Bapasola with students at The College of New Jersey (Priscilla Nunez Photo)

Paying mentorship forward by helping students make the right moves

College students need more than career counseling. As young adults, still shaking off adolescence, and facing huge pressures as they ente ...

10 years ago

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Raising a Compassionate Child in an Age of Entitlement

Do schools still give grades for good citizenship? Should they? Are we raising children to have too much self-esteem? In an era of compet ...

Air Date: October 19, 2015

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Philadelphia

US bishop warns of ‘anxiety’ at pope’s family summit

The American archbishop who welcomed Pope Francis to the final rally of his U.S. tour has warned that Francis’ big family summit of ...

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