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Business owners Bennie and Esther Broomer were honored with a street-naming ceremony. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
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Wilmington dubs street corner in honor of longtime ice cream shop owners

Mayor Mike Purzycki signed an executive order declaring the corner of Eighth and Church as “Bennie & Esther H. Broomer’s Way” with a new street sign.

7 years ago

Black coffee shop owners gather for a live-streamed conversation about retail racism and supporting black businesses at Amalgam Comics and Coffeeshop in Kensington. Participating are (clockwise from left) Amalgam owner Ariell Johnson, owner of Franny Lou's Porch Blew MaryWillow, activist Mark Lamont Hill, Shantrell P. Lewis of Shoppe Black, Keba Konte of Red Bay Coffee, and activist Pam Africa.
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‘Challenge to us, as black businesses, is how do we do business differently’

Owners of small coffeeshops gather to talk about building up businesses in black community rather than boycotting Starbucks and other chains.

7 years ago

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Gerald Gordon, owner of the General Store and
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History
Pennsylvania
Visual Arts

Photos document how history lives on in river town of Lumberville

'River Town Portraits' is a visual love poem to quaint Bucks County village.

7 years ago

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Holly Koczon jumps her horse Angel at the 122nd annual Devon Horse Show Sunday, May 27. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Pennsylvania
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Young riders show off their skills at Devon Horse Show

Sapphire Grand Prix set for Thursday as show continues through Sunday.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

The Starbucks arrests: race, bias and policing

Guests: Kevin Woodson, Mark Kelly Tyler, Stacey Sinclair Tuesday afternoon 8,000 Starbucks will close for unconsc ...

Air Date: May 29, 2018 10:00 am

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 FILE - In this April 2, 1965 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., second from right, speaks at a news conference next to John Lewis, to his left, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/William A. Smith, File)
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

King, Conversation and Coffee

Some of the world’s greatest moments of social change began with a simple conversation.

7 years ago

Nekia Pressley was accused of stealing a hoagie as she carried a package with prescription medication. (Darryl C. Murphy for WHYY)
Public Safety
Public Spaces
Race & Ethnicity

Not just Starbucks: Shopping while black

Being a black, Muslim woman who wears a hijab, this isn’t the first time Nekia Pressley has faced discrimination

7 years ago

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A store closing sign for May 29 is posted at a pickup counter at a Starbucks store, Friday, May 25, 2018, in Chicago. Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is taking to try to restore its tarnished diversity-friendly image.
Business
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Anti-bias training day for Starbucks

The identical, 4-hour sessions will happen inside 8,000 company-owned stores. It’ll be part history lesson, part personal exploration, part refresher course on company policy.

7 years ago

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French President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets with Mamoudou Gassama, 22, from Mali, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 28, 2018. Mamoudou Gassama living illegally in France is being honored by Macron for scaling an apartment building over the weekend to save a 4-year-old child dangling from a fifth-floor balcony. Thibault Camus/Pool via Reuters - RC17E8529380
PBS NewsHour

France’s President Macron rewards migrant hero who saved dangling child

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
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Race & Ethnicity

NewsWorks Tonight, May 28, 2018

Starbucks conducts anti-bias training for its staff tomorrow. A Drexel University study has devised a method to better monitor pilots’ ...

Air Date: May 28, 2018

Listen 20:47
A satellite image shows Alberto as it nears landfall on the Florida Panhandle and the Gulf Coast on Monday.
NOAA/STAR
NPR

At least 2 killed as Subtropical Storm Alberto makes landfall in southern U.S.

The first named storm of the season, Subtropical Storm Alberto, came ashore Monday along the Florida Panhandle, bringing heavy rain to a wide swath of the Southeast and claimi

7 years ago

The consequences of errors and lies on old world maps (PBS)
PBS NewsHour
History

The consequences of errors and lies on old world maps

7 years ago

Robert Herendeen, National Park Service ranger, speaks to visitors at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Rangers like Herendeen have the task of collecting items left at the wall — including human remains. (Eslah Attar/NPR)
NPR
Military

Human ashes left at the Vietnam Memorial find a not-final resting place

It's nightfall in D.C., at the end of the evening shift, when the throngs of students on school field trips have slowed to a trickle at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

7 years ago

Water moves past a car swept into the riverbank and smashed by a fallen tree is shown just off Main Street in flood-ravaged Ellicott City, Md., Monday, May 28, 2018. Sunday's destructive flooding left the former mill town heartbroken as it had bounded back from another destructive storm less than two years ago. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
Infrastructure
National
Public Safety

Rescuers seeking 1 man still missing in Maryland flooding

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — One man remained missing after flash flooding tore down historic Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland, and ...

7 years ago

Philadelphia Phillies' Nick Williams hits a RBI single off Toronto Blue Jays' J.A. Happ to score Aaron Altherr during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 27, 2018, in Philadelphia. The Blue Jays won 5-3.

Fans seem less than enthusiastic about sports betting rules

When it comes to sports betting, the reaction is mixed amongst Phillies fans.

7 years ago

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