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Kristal Bush chews on sunflower seeds to keep alert on the long drive to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Bush is the founder of @BridgingTheGapLLC transportation company. Several times a week, her vans pick up riders from their homes throughout Philadelphia and drive them to see loved ones in prisons across the state.
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Connecting prisoners with loved ones is this Philly woman’s business

Kristal Bush started her service, Bridging the Gap, in 2012. As a child, she went years without seeing her dad. Her mom didn’t have a car that could make it from Philly.

8 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, January 16, 2018

Phil Murphy is sworn in as New Jersey's 56th governor. A new report shows most cities and states won't say what they're offering Amazon to locate there.

Air Date: January 16, 2018

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A seal resting in Ocean Grove by Blur Revision Media Design's Chris Spiegel.
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New Jersey

Photogenic winter critters at the Jersey Shore

Foxes, seals, and snowy owls are the main attraction, dazzling photographers who come to capture the animals enjoying the quiet Jersey Shore.   

8 years ago

Pope Francis waves at followers on his way to the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, on Monday.
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International
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On visit to Chile, Pope asks for forgiveness over sex-abuse scandal

Pope Francis, arriving in Chile to begin a three-day visit, opened his trip by asking for forgiveness over a local priest-abuse scandal that has left the country reeling.

8 years ago

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:
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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

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