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Tidal flooding in Stone Harbor in Feb. 2016 as photographed by Zeke Orzech (‏@Zeke_O via Twitter).
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Major tidal flooding possible on Saturday

The Jersey Shore should brace for the potential of major tidal flooding on Saturday.

8 years ago

 Persons walk in and out of a Walmart store, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Dallas. (Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo)
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Walmart sets age of 21 to buy firearms, ammunition

Walmart said its decision came after the company reviewed its firearm sales policy in light of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

8 years ago

Cherry Hill Mayor Chuck Cahn joins the more than 200 in attendance at the Cherry Hill school board meeting Tuesday night, where a long list of speakers sounded off about school security and administrative gaffes at Cherry Hill East High School. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Following student protests, Cherry Hill mayor favors armed security in schools

But Mayor Chuck Cahn says he does not support arming teachers.

8 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, February 28, 2018

U.S. Senator Pat Toomey announces a bipartisan plan to promote new gun control measures. Congressional candidates in Pennsylvania struggl ...

Air Date: February 28, 2018

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Activists call for more support for Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria during a rally at Thomas Paine Plaza. They are joined by Carlos Torres (left), Muriel Rivera and her son, Yeriel, 6, (center left), and Melanie Garcia and her three children (center right), who all face eviction.
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Philadelphia
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A new group promises long-term support for Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees

This is a first step towards creating the long-term recovery strategy that city officials and community advocates have struggled to create in the five months since the storm.

8 years ago

A smoke column from a forest fire in Manchester in February 2017. Smoke from yesterday's forest fire in Manchester. (Image: JSHN contributor Mike Logger)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Controlled burning generating smoke columns Wednesday

Smoke will be visible today in the Jersey Shore region as firefighters conduct numerous prescribed burns.

8 years ago

Former Democratic Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma, seen in August 2017, holds a copy of The Kerner Report, as he discusses its 50th anniversary. Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission.
(Russell Contreras/AP)
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Race & Ethnicity

Report updates landmark 1968 racism study, finds more poverty and segregation

A new study that builds on the Kerner Report's work was released this week.

8 years ago

(From left) Penn students Ramon Garcia-Gomez, Helen Fetaw, and Nathaniel Gertzman, tour the 7th Ward. They read about W. E. B. Du Bois and his research in Philadelphia as part of their African American History class. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Touring Philly’s black history along South Street from Du Bois home to Standard Theater

Some University of Pennsylvania students studying African-American history are zooming in on the era when South Street was the heart of Philadelphia's black community.

8 years ago

Andrea Lawful-Sanders
Speak Easy
History
Home & Family
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The future depends on building legacies for — and with — the next generation

It’s the young people who are creating the movements.

8 years ago

Alim Smith
Speak Easy
Innovation
Media
Race & Ethnicity

Black consciousness has been hacked

A lot of black people are in a space where we have the spirit, the soul, and all that it takes to override oppression, but it means nothing if we don’t believe it.

8 years ago

Tayyib Smith
Speak Easy
History
Innovation
Race & Ethnicity

Creating my black future from freedom, social impact, and collective good

Black people have always had to project themselves into the future because of the reality of their present. Even today, it takes some cognitive dissonance not to be enraged.

8 years ago

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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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