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It’s all about the training; veterans take to the soil and learn to farm
Veteran training covers may aspects once military service is over. But farming? 44 percent of the men and women who enlist c ...
9 years ago
Veterans reflect on their service during day out at The Adventure Aquarium
What’s the worst question you can ask a veteran? “Did you kill anybody?” As part of the Veterans Coming Home pro ...
9 years ago
Cinema Paradiso: Ralph Hirshorn Shares His Love of Film With Chestnut Hill, 19118
Ralph S. Hirshorn is sitting in his personal movie theater and laughing about Purple Rain. The septuagenarian resident of ...
9 years ago
‘She Wore Those Boots’ confronts military sexual assault, on base and in the family
In a small theater at the edge of Northern Liberties, a play is taking on sexual assault in the military. On stage a mother, her g ...
9 years ago
ListenCamden Pop-Warner team adds girl-power to the lineup
This fall, second grader Janiyah Hill–who regularly goes toe-to-toe at home with her ten-year old brother Izayah, a ...
9 years ago
Feds say New Jersey may have to pay back $43 million in Superstorm Sandy aid
The troubled rollout three years ago of a Hurricane Sandy rebuilding aid program continues to dog Gov. Chris Christie, with auditors and ...
9 years ago
Gas drillers need to work with our communities, not against them
I was disappointed to hear that the Marcellus Shale Coalition is already ...
9 years ago
Palazzo on the Parkway has a coming out party
The former Boy Scouts of America Cradle of Liberty Council headquarters on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was host to the Fairmount Park C ...
9 years ago
Refugees remember forging new lives in Philadelphia
According to the Children’s Advocacy Project of Philadelphia, there are over 130,000 immigrants and refugees in Philadelphia. Their ...
9 years ago
Refugee elders support each other after a long, difficult journey
Naw Gay Lay is a 77-year-old Burmese refugee living in South Philadelphia. When she reached her mid-30s, her whole village had to flee military insurgents.
9 years ago
A tangled path from Khmer Rouge refugee to community healer
Imagine for a moment your childhood memories included living in a bomb shelter for years, watching your 2-year-old sister die in your arms.
9 years ago
Divisiveness in queer spaces undermines work of change-makers on front lines
Recently, I was honored to receive the Charlene J. Arcila Lifetime Achievement Award from GALAEI, a ...
9 years ago
Do you worry a lot? Always think about the worst case scenario? New research finds that that may actu ...
Air Date: October 17, 2016
Listen 00:03:06Some doctors and nurses who care for people at the end of life are encouraging their patients to write letters to their loved ones while ...
Air Date: October 10, 2016
Listen 00:03:31Why Gayborhood racism isn’t just on Darryl DePiano
After the video of club owner Darryl DePiano using the n-word surfaced, he has become the de facto example of Gayborhood racism, ...
9 years ago