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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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Arlene Figueroa, the partner of Joseph Santos, is pictured after an interfaith service for the 44-year-old who was fatally shot by South Whitehall Township Police Officer Jonathan Roselle on July 28, 2018. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Pennsylvania
Policing

Deadly police shooting in South Whitehall Township brings protests for victim, support for the officer

"Standing on the side of the oppressed means standing with people of color who are dying by police brutality," said Cecilia Baxter, a pastor at Christ Church in Bethlehem.

8 years ago

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Thousands of Berliners come to Tempelhof on warm summer evenings, but there's always room for more. (Martin Kaste/NPR)
NPR
History
International
Public Spaces

The site of the Berlin airlift now serves as refugee shelter and big open park

8 years ago

A group of anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter demonstrators march on the campus of the University of Virginia after a rally to mark the anniversary of last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Counterprotesters expected to dwarf white supremacists in DC

The principal organizer of last year's "Unite the Right" event will hold a "white civil rights rally," and police are preparing for crowds of counterprotesters.

8 years ago

White nationalists, neo-Nazis, KKK and members of the
NPR
Politics
Race & Ethnicity

After Charlottesville, alt-right groups splinter, distance from white supremacy

Experts who monitor domestic extremism in the United States are taking stock of where the far-right movement stands.

8 years ago

A memorial to Heather Heyer — who was killed at last year's Charlottesville rally by a driver facing murder and hate crime charges — stands at the site of her death. Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, is in the background. (Steve Helber/AP)
NPR
National
Politics
Race & Ethnicity

‘We are resilient:’ Memorials, heavy police presence mark Charlottesville anniversary

Sunday is the first anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally.

8 years ago

Marletha Muhammad helps her daughter, Khanila, spell her name with chalk at a June playgroup meeting in Rocky Mount, North Carolina The purpose of the meetings is to encourage healthy interactions between parents and their young children. (Liz Bell/The Hechinger Report)
Kids
Neighborhoods

Playgroups offer rural families a head start on school

The meetings are a way for families to meet other families, get connected with resources and prepare children for kindergarten.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Business
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Philadelphia

NewsWorks Tonight, August 10, 2018

Campbell’s Soup company is feeling pressure from investors to put itself up for sale. Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at the Gallup ...

Air Date: August 10, 2018

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Quran, 6, of Southwest Philadelphia, has his face painted at the Southwark Projects Reunion at Jefferson Square Park by Latonia Brown, owner of Golden Brownie Art. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia

Philly’s displaced communities reunite every year to keep neighborhood spirit going

Former rivals from 13th Street and 5th Street now welcome each other, exchanging invites instead of blows, as they reconnect.

8 years ago

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Lights shine inside the U.S. Capitol as night falls in Washington.
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Gallup poll: Most see Congress as corrupt, beholden to special interests

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

Listen 5:58
Contract signing by ACEA Executive Director Lauren H. Moore Jr. with USDA loan specialist Joseph Henry (seated to left) and (standing, from left) Max Slusher, ACEA business development director; Michael Zumpino, Triad Associates chairman and CEO; Noel McGuire, ACEA business aviation representative; and Steve Kehs, Triad Associates vice president. (Provided)
Business
New Jersey

Atlantic County looking to expand aviation industry

Officials want to build up the area as a place for good jobs that are not in the tourism business

8 years ago

An artist's rendering of plans to convert 1.8 million square feet of an unused portion of a Wilmington AstraZeneca site into a mixed-use community. (Della Donne & Associates)
Architecture & Design
Delaware

Developer proposes multi-use community for AstraZeneca site in Wilmington

Della Donne & Associates plans to convert 1.8 million square feet into a community of office spaces, luxury apartments, a hotel, restaurants, and shops.

8 years ago

Tony Guido explains features of a composting vessel he helped build for a Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council design competition. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Food & Drink
PlanPhilly

To vanquish food waste, a competition aims to design and compost

A competition to invent a new, better bin was launched last year by the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

8 years ago

A public domain image of a Robinson R22 Beta II helicopter.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

2 injured after helicopter crashes at Shore

A helicopter with a student pilot and an instructor aboard crashed near a small airport at the Jersey Shore, leaving two people injured.

8 years ago

Peter Reijmers, 29, of Charlottesville, lays flowers at a memorial on 4th Street SE where Heather Heyer was killed last August. (Justin T. Gellerson/NPR)
NPR
Changing Communities
Social Justice

‘Unite The Right’ rally forced Charlottesville to rethink town’s racial history

After a deadly clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters on Aug. 12 last year, Charlottesville has become shorthand for racial strife.

8 years ago

This April 28, 2018 photo shows visitors looking at markers bearing the names of lynching victims at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. The memorial includes some 800 markers, one for each county in the U.S. where lynchings took place, documenting the killings of more than 4,400 individuals between 1877 and 1950. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

Cold monuments versus living testimonies: A civil rights tour

Is it still history when it moves a person to tears? When it stirs anger or resentment? Inspires remorse or rededication? Replaces fear w ...

8 years ago

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