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A fan waves the Finnish flag during the Nordic World Ski Championships last year. Finland is No. 1 on the annual World Happiness Report, released Wednesday. (Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)
NPR
International
Public Health

Life’s nice in the Nordic ice: Finland, neighbors top U.N. happiness index; America slides

The U.S. dropped four spots from last year to No. 18, just above the U.K. and the U.A.E. In fact, the explanation for the American slide gets an entire chapter.

8 years ago

James Earl Davis, a Professor of Urban Education at Temple University and his golden Doodle, Baldwin, pictured in his home in East Germantown.
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Philadelphia

Black middle class finds refuge in East Germantown’s diversity, gentrifying on their own terms

“I can’t reverse gentrification with one bookstore. But what I can do is model alternatives to what gentrification looks like,” said Hill.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Housing
K-12
Philadelphia

NewsWorks Tonight, March 14, 2018

We visit several of the schools in our region that participated in the national student walkout to protest gun violence. Movita Johnson-H ...

Air Date: March 14, 2018

Listen 17:13
. (Lindsay Lazarsky/WHYY, file)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities

3 maps that explain gentrification in Philadelphia

“Gentrification” is a word that gets tossed around a lot, especially in Philadelphia, a city where some neighborhoods are experiencing rapid demographic shifts.

8 years ago

Bill Cosby departs a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.
Cosby Unraveled

Season 2 Preview

In Cosby Unraveled, Season 2 we prepare for Cosby’s retrial set against the backdrop of the #MeToo moment.

Air Date: March 14, 2018

Listen 2:30
(The Philadelphia Tribune)
The Philadelphia Tribune
History
Philadelphia

Remembering the 1967 Philadelphia student walkout

Nov. 17 marks the 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia city-wide Black-Student Walkout. Tribune Digital Editor Nicki Mayo spoke with protest organizer Walter D. Palmer.

8 years ago

Students at Charter School of Wilmington and Cab Calloway School of the Arts, in Wilmington, Delaware
NewsWorks Tonight
K-12
Public Safety

Thousands of Philly-area students walk out of school over gun violence

Students from more than 50 schools in the region left their classrooms this morning for today’s National School Walkout.

8 years ago

Listen 5:13
 (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Delaware Business Now
Delaware

Delmarva Power test to lead to four hour power outage in Middletown

Middletown will go dark for four hours on Thursday morning.

8 years ago

Mastery Shoemaker Principal Sharif El-Mekki, 46. stamds at the entrance to the school with students Essi Gasonu (left) and Bryce Thompson.  (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Voices behind the walkout: Mastery Charter School

At Mastery Charter School’s Shoemaker campus in West Philly, activism is ingrained in the school culture: 8th graders take a social justice class for heir history requirement.

8 years ago

Tonetta Graham on her Strawberry Mansion porch (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Philadelphia

‘We want to see growth’ too: Why Tonnetta Graham isn’t worried about Philly hipsters moving into her neighborhood

Graham wants the main beneficiaries to be people like herself, residents who stuck with the neighborhood during its darkest moments.

8 years ago

Listen 5:59
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Radio Times
Kids
Law

The student walkout for gun control

Students across the country will be participating in a walk-out today to show their solidarity with the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas ...

Air Date: March 14, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 13:59
Meek Mill’s mother Kathy Williams and his attorney Joe Tacopina
Criminal Justice
Politics
Social Justice

From prison, Meek Mill vows to champion changes in Pa. criminal justice system

Penn hosts discussion of Philadelphia rapper's case as emblematic of a system clouded with racial bias.

8 years ago

Carmella Hernandez and her family, taking sanctuary from deportation in a North Philadelphia church, ask for support on social media.
NewsWorks Tonight
Immigration
Law
Philadelphia

Despite long odds, Brady sponsoring private bill to keep immigrant family in U.S.

'It lets ICE know that we’re paying attention here,' says U.S. Rep. Bob Brady of private bill he's sponsoring.

8 years ago

Listen 2:32
NewsWorks Tonight
K-12
Performing Arts
Politics

NewsWorks Tonight, March 13, 2018

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy lays out his first bud ...

Air Date: March 13, 2018

Listen 22:37
Snow falling early Tuesday morning at the Ocean Grove pier. (Image: John Entwistle Photography )
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Here's how much snow fell at the Shore

A powerful coastal storm that lashed New England Tuesday only grazed the Jersey Shore but dropped moderate snow accumulations in some are ...

8 years ago

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