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Villanova students celebrates as the men's basketball team wins the NCAA championship. (Branden Eastwood for WHYY)
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Villanova cements its basketball dominance and Wildcat nation revels

Students flooded the suburban streets Monday night after Villanova won its second men's basketball championship in three years.

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Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery in 1965.
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Philly social justice advocates mine lessons from MLK’s legacy

The event, hosted by WHYY and NewCore, is part of a conversation series unfolding across the Philadelphia region since January to mark the 50th anniversary of King's death.

8 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, April 2, 2018

Potential jurors for Bill Cosby’s upcoming criminal sexual assault retrial answered questions about their ability to be fair and im ...

Air Date: April 2, 2018

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Demonstrators gather outside the entrance to the Sacramento City Council chambers to protest the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento,
The Philadelphia Experiment
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It appears to be open season on those standing up against racism

Long before Stephon Clark was shot dead by Sacramento police officers, those who dared to protest police mistreatment of African-Americans became targets.

8 years ago

Villanova head coach Jay Wright, left, offers to bump his fist as Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges arrive at a news conference for the championship game of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, April 1, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Villanova prepares, greasing utility poles, before game

Authorities around the Villanova University campus are preparing — and, yes, greasing utility poles — in anticipation of fan celebrations

8 years ago

Workers and contractors for Sunoco Pipeline begin an ‘additional investigation’ of geological conditions behind homes at Lisa Drive, West Whiteland Township, Chester County where the company has been drilling for construction of the Mariner East 2 and 2X pipelines. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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Pennsylvania

Sunoco to residents near sinkholes: We’ll pay to relocate you during investigation

Sunoco is offering to relocate residents at a Chester County site where drilling for the Mariner East pipelines has caused sink holes to open up in recent weeks.

8 years ago

Winnie Mandela, anti-apartheid campaigner and wife of the late Nelson Mandela, attended ANC National Conference in December.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, dies at 81

Madikizela-Mandela, a towering anti-apartheid crusader and former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, died Monday in Johannesburg "after a long illness

8 years ago

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 1, 2018. (Vatican Media via AP)
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International
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‘Hope and dignity:’ Pope calls for peace in Easter message

On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis called for peace, beginning with Syria and extending to Israel.

8 years ago

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

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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)
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‘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

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