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 A mural is shown in Philadelphia's Mantua neighborhood at Fairmount Avenue and 34th Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Income Inequality

Philly should relieve eviction crisis by funding legal representation for low-income tenants

In the nation’s poorest big city, with an overburdened shelter system that regularly turns away requests for housing, our eviction rate ...

8 years ago

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Gender
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Derek Walcott’s sexual harassment problem, and ours

In 2009, the Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott withdrew his name from consideration for the honorary position of professor of poetry at Oxford ...

8 years ago

Chris Hayes
Radio Times
Policing

Chris Hayes: “A Colony in a Nation”

Guest: Chris Hayes There are two American criminal justice systems – one you’d expect to find in a democracy, ...

Air Date: March 23, 2017

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 Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police President John McNesby announces the union's endorsement of Rich Negrin for district attorney. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
Law
Public Safety
Social Justice

Conflict of interest in FOP endorsement of Philly DA candidate

One of the most complicated and delicate relationships a district attorney must balance is their relationship with the police. ...

8 years ago

 Nearly 200 people attended a town hall on Delaware prison reform Monday night. Many said prisoners are routinely subjected to abuse by guards and inadequate health care. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
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Former inmates, relatives claim Delaware prisoners abused, denied proper health care

Delaware prisoners are subjected to widespread abuse by guards and inadequate health care, more than two dozen former inmates, relatives ...

8 years ago

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Law
National
Social Justice

Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee refuses to stand up for ordinary working Americans

From the cops policing our streets to the judges in our courts, our justice system is one of the most important demonstrations ...

8 years ago

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Radio Times
Home & Family
Policing
Religion

Spike in hate crimes

Guests: Nancy Baron-Baer, Tarek El-Messidi, Josh Shapiro Bomb threats, cemetery desecration and swastika graffiti ...

Air Date: March 3, 2017

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Philadelphia
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

Judge rules Philly man beaten by police was stopped illegally

A Pennsylvania state judge has ruled that police illegally stopped a 22-year-old unarmed black man in East Germantown in 2015 before a do ...

8 years ago

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia deserves a good district attorney. What does that mean?

Philadelphia is about to enter a race to elect the most powerful person in the Pennsylvania criminal justice system. Philly being a Democ ...

8 years ago

Acting Attorney General Sally Yates
Speak Easy

Saying ‘No’ is not client betrayal

Sally Yates’ refusal to order the Department of Justice to defend Donald Trump’s immigration/refugee ban was decried as betra ...

8 years ago

A soldier walks past a stone wall surrounding the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth
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Gender
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Manning case highlights the plight of transgender women in men’s prisons

When President Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning ...

8 years ago

Emma Turner was granted a new trial on drug charges after identifying an alibi witness, but the new trial was averted because her probation ended as the case was pending. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Defendant’s quest for second look at case can outlast sentence in Philly

Police had their eye on Emma Turner’s Aramingo Avenue house long before November 2006. But that’s when she learned about it. ...

8 years ago

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Plato A. Marinakos Jr., an architect who worked on a botched 2013 building demolition that killed six people, leaves City Hall after opening statements in the civil trial brought by survivors and families of those killed.
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Architect in Philly collapse saw danger of unsupported wall, relied on contractor

Plato Marinakos didn't mince words Monday while on the witness stand.

9 years ago

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Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

‘Truth and reconciliation’ through police transparency in the Black Lives Matter era

A remarkable series of transparency victories in policing has occurred in Chicago over the last year, victories that can inform the gener ...

9 years ago

 Xelba Gutierrez leads a protest demanding that the Democratic National Convention reveal its sources of funding on Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Policing

Recently disclosed DNC insurance policy shows law enforcement’s contempt for protest

With much less fanfare than it received before the Democratic National Convention, the ...

9 years ago

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