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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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Alvin Irby, founder of Barbershop Books, is on a mission to get kids reading in the barbershop.
(Nickolai Hammer/NPR)
NPR
Books
Kids
Race & Ethnicity

Turning kids into readers, one barbershop at a time

It's mid-afternoon when Irby walks in, a man on a mission. He needs a trim from his go-to barber, Kenny, but he also wants to check in on his 15 books.

8 years ago

Villanova's Eric Paschall (4) dunks over Kansas's Mitch Lightfoot (44) during the second half in the semifinals of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 31, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Higher Education
Sports

Villanova beats Kansas for another title shot

Villanova is going to play for another national championship.

8 years ago

Frank Musser stands just outside the smokehouses at Czerw's Polish Kielbasa in Port Richmond.
View Finders
Business
Food & Drink

Easter tradition draws kielbasa lovers to Port Richmond smokehouse

Czerw’s Kielbasa is practically synonymous with Easter for those who wait in the early morning Good Friday line.

8 years ago

The first snowfall of 2015 in Ocean Beach 2 on January 6. (Photo: JSHN contributor Shane Skwarek‎)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Light snow on tap for Sunday night

A quick hitting system is likely to deliver light snow to the Jersey Shore Sunday night.

8 years ago

 Dr. Martin Luther King, third from right, marchers across the Alabama River on the first of a five day, 50 mile march to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., on March 21, 1965.(AP Photo)
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

AP-NORC Poll: Blacks think civil rights goals unachieved

Fifty years after the assassination of MLK only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he led.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Law
Philadelphia
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NewsWorks Tonight, March 30, 2018

Laura Benshoff provides an update on the Cosby pre-trial hearings as they come to a close. Ashley Hahn brings the story of Philadelphia ...

Air Date: March 30, 2018

Listen 22:30
Philadelphia fire commissioner Adam Thiel said it will take time to determine what caused the fire at The Original Apostolic Faith Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in North Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Religion

‘It has made us and God angry’: North Philly church burns just before Easter

A North Philly church that's been a pillar of the community burned in a three-alarm fire Thursday afternoon, leaving the small congregation without a worship space.

8 years ago

Pope Francis celebrates a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 29, 2018. During the Mass the pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year. (Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo)
NPR
Religion

ICYMI, Pope to world: Hell does exist

Things got a little heated at the Vatican this week when an Italian journalist reported that Pope Francis denied the existence of hell.

8 years ago

Leaders at the Mid Sussex Rescue Squad allegedly misappropriated $119,877 between 2011 and 2016, according to state auditor Thomas Wagner. (image via Google Maps)
Delaware

Millsboro rescue squad misused $120,000, Delaware audit says

A volunteer rescue squad company in southern Delaware allegedly misused its funds over five years, a state audit report says.

8 years ago

After cleaning up the beach, students create a smiling octopus and other ocean artwork during the 24th annual Kids Ocean Day beach cleanup at Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles Thursday, May 25, 2017. Some 4,000 children from Los Angeles-area elementary schools took part, the culmination of a year-round program by the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education, which seeks to tell children how pollution affects the ocean. (Reed Saxon/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Americans believe the kids will be all right

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 5:29
The Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River at the Delaware Water Gap. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY)
Business
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pa. group calls for higher penalties for Clean Water Act violators

A report by PennEnvironment ranks Pennsylvania second in violations nationwide.

8 years ago

Google image
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Shore bridge to close once again for rehabilitation work

Officials say a bridge that connects two New Jersey shore towns will be closed for three weeks in order to replace its railing.

8 years ago

This Feb. 10, 2009 file photo shows some of the more than 1,100 old fuses and small anti-aircraft shells that have been found as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers searches for any remaining World War I era munitions along the Atlantic Ocean in Surf City, N.J. A century after World War I ended, munitions from that and other wars continue to surface on beaches around the United States, usually during beach replenishment projects when they are sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore onto the sand, or exposed by strong storms. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, File)
Environment
History
Military

A century after WWI, munitions still making way onto beaches

Items ranging from tiny fuses to full-scale mines are displaced by beach replenishment projects, sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore, or by strong storms.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight March 29, 2018

This show has modern cases of red lining, immigrants seeking English teachers, and children climbing walls.

Air Date: March 29, 2018

Listen 20:45
Peter Rinaldi. (Photo courtesy of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Search underway for Shore contractor accused of scamming homeowners

Authorities are searching for a Jersey Shore contractor who allegedly scammed a dozen homeowners.

8 years ago

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