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Think is a national call-in radio program, hosted by acclaimed journalist Krys Boyd and produced by KERA — North Texas’ PBS and NPR member station. Each week, listeners across the country tune in to the program to hear thought-provoking, in-depth conversations with newsmakers from across the globe.

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William Merritt Jr. teaches boys how to fix a tie during MLK Day of Service event. (Nichelle Polston/WHYY)
Delaware
Social Justice

Delaware organization focuses on raising generation of ‘MLK’ leaders

A local organization remains committed to Wilmington youth especially when it comes to helping young boys become the next generation of leaders.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, January 15, 2018

Grassroots campaigns are popping up for Pennsylvania’s first congressional district seat.  Philadelphia’s black community st ...

Air Date: January 15, 2018

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Stanley Straughter, a member of the Mayor's Commission on African and Caribbean Immigrant Affairs, speaks during a strategizing meeting of African and Caribbean community members on January 13, 2018 at Southwest Community Development Corporation in Philadelphia. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

‘Disgusted’ African and Caribbean immigrants in Philly respond to Trump’s vulgar comments with action

After President Trump allegedly made vulgar comments about several countries, leaders of Philly's African and Caribbean communities want to turn their outrage into action.

8 years ago

Volunteers with the United Way and Chemours  employees organize care packages for the homeless. (Nichelle Polston/WHYY)
Delaware

A community partnership in Delaware leads to full day of service in honor of Dr. King

A partnership between Chemours and UWDE created four volunteer opportunities for employees to keep the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alive.

8 years ago

 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
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Immigration
International
Social Justice

As Trump ends temporary protections for Salvadorans, this poet writes to humanize the immigrant story

8 years ago

 President Donald Trump listens to a question while meeting the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
PBS

MLK III on Trump: ‘We got to find a way to work on this man’s heart’

8 years ago

Image: National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Above normal temperatures likely toward end of January

A January that has seen mostly bone-chilling Arctic temperatures is likely to end on a relatively mild note, forecasters say.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

Rescuers help man escape from collapsed cesspool

A 71-year-old Cape May County man was injured last Friday when he fell into a collapsed cesspool, authorities say.

8 years ago

Psychologist John Pryor created a scale in the 1980s which can determine how likely a person is to sexually harass someone else.
NPR
Gender

How likely is someone to sexually harass others? This scale determines

Why do some people, mainly men, sexually harass their colleagues?

8 years ago

Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala. She testified:
NPR
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Meet the fearless cook who secretly fed — and funded — the civil rights movement

Georgia Gilmore used the profits from selling her food to others in the movement to help pay for alternative transportation in Montgomery during the 381-day bus boycot.

8 years ago

The Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson with Coretta Scott King and Bishop Walker. (Courtesy Rev. Casson)
First
Delaware
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Vowing to uphold MLK’s mission

Some called Martin Luther King Jr. a visionary. Others called him a troublemaker. For Wilmington minister Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson, he was an inspiration.

8 years ago

Asaf Barrios, 11, jams out on his steele drum accompanied by his father, Raul, at APM's Three Kings Day/Octavious celebration for displaced families from Puerto Rico in North Philadelphia on January 12 2018. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
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Three Kings and Octavitas bring a taste of home for Puerto Ricans starting over in Philly

Three Kings Day and Octavitas are two post-Christmas holiday celebrations important in Latin America. For recent arrivals from Puerto Ric ...

8 years ago

In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, a Hawaii Civil Defense Warning Device, which sounds an alert siren during natural disasters, is seen in Honolulu. (Caleb Jones/AP)
NPR
International

‘This Is Not A Drill’: A false ballistic missile alert shakes Hawaii

FCC is launching full investigation into false alert in Hawaii.

8 years ago

Dion Diamond listens with his eyes closed to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, at a
NPR
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

The civil rights activist whose name you’ve probably never heard

Dion Diamond was sitting at a "whites-only" lunch counter in Arlington, Va., in 1960 when a crowd started gathering around him.

8 years ago

Weather Underground map at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Flash freeze possible at the Shore as temperatures plummet Saturday

Any standing water on Jersey Shore roadways will freeze Saturday as temperatures plummet, and it could happen quickly, forecasters say. ...

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