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Miriam Harris
Speak Easy
Race & Ethnicity

The future of blackness doesn’t depend on comparisons to whiteness

I am an educator because I choose to invest in the future of blackness.

7 years ago

Customers shop at a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Niles, Ill., in 2014. The sports retailer CEO Ed Stack announced Dick's is immediately ending its sales of assault-style rifles and requiring all customers to be older than 21 to buy a firearm at its sto
NPR

Dick’s Sporting Goods ends sale of assault-style rifles, citing Florida shooting

Dick's Sporting Goods has announced it is immediately ending its sales of assault-style rifles and requiring all customers to be older than 21 to buy a firearm at its stores.

7 years ago

More than 200 people pack the Cherry Hill school board meeting Tuesday night, where students and parents voiced concerns over safety prompted by the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
K-12
New Jersey

Packed Cherry Hill meeting gives school board earful over security and removed teacher

Cherry Hill East students demanded answers from the board of education, called for increased school safety measures and supported Locke.

7 years ago

Gun control protest
NewsWorks Tonight
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Helen Ubiñas: Gun control and everyday violence must not be ignored

Ubiñas, a longtime commentator on gun violence in Philadelphia, read her column, "Everyday gun violence must be part of gun control reckoning," on NewsWorks Tonight.

7 years ago

Listen 3:22
NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, February 27, 2018

Dr. Eugenia South, Assistant Professor at the Penn Department of Emergency Medicine, discusses a recent study ...

Air Date: February 27, 2018

Listen 20:41
One of three billboards trying to entice Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James to come to Philadelphia are shown near a highway, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, in Cleveland.  (Tony Dejak/AP Photo)
Sports

LeBron flattered by Philly fans’ free-agency fawning

James can opt out of his contract with Cleveland following this season and the superstar can hit the free-agency market.

7 years ago

arm wrestling
Speak Easy
Race & Ethnicity

Talking about race in America means perfecting the art of feeling uncomfortable

I sometimes wish I could stop talking about race, just for a day. It gets exhausting. I shouldn’t have to defend my race on a daily basis.

7 years ago

South Seaside Park
Down the Shore
New Jersey

NWS: Potential for 'at least' minor tidal flooding for several high tide cycles

Forecasters remain concerned about the potential for tidal flooding and heavy rain later this week as a coastal storm begins impacting the area on Thursday. 

7 years ago

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial
Speak Easy
History
Race & Ethnicity

Am I a stranger to my brother?

It’s the responsibility of people like me to keep looking for people like him to make those chance encounters more than just shouting matches on the street.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight February 26, 2018

PA candidates scramble to figure out just which districts they're running in. And the Philadelphia public league championship returns to the Palestra.

Air Date: February 26, 2018

Listen 21:00
Father teaching the son how to tie a necktie
Speak Easy
Gender
Sex & Relationships
Social Justice

Re-educating sexual harassers: What could restorative justice look like?

Can a human being change? Can a culture? It's not too late to begin.

7 years ago

Stephanie Laws talks about the joys of being a foster parent, flanked by a sign with information about a new campaign to recruit more of them. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Urgent need for foster families in Philadelphia

Without a foster home, children are placed in group homes. But officials said they can't get the same support in those situations.

7 years ago

DuPont, the longtime Delaware mainstay, has merged with Dow Chemical to form  DowDuPont.  (AP file photo)
Delaware Business Now
Business
Delaware

DuPont name to live on as ag business becomes Corteva

DowDuPont announced brand names for each of three divisions that will be spun off. The agriculture company, headquartered in Wilmington will be known as Corteva Agriscience.

7 years ago

Riders take a lap through Philadelphia during the 2012 professional cycling race. (Bas Slabbers/for WHYY, file)
International
Philadelphia
Sports

Is it the end of the road for the Manayunk bike race?

For the second straight year, there will be no professional cycling race in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Unionville historical marker displays names of 18 Black Civil War veterans who founded the town. (Andrea Gibbs/WHYY)
First
Delaware
Race & Ethnicity

Historic Eastern Shore community exemplifies perseverance

The lasting legacy of 18 men who endured the hardships of the middle passage, slavery, and the Civil War to create a future that offered more opportunities than their past.

7 years ago

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