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Essay: Someone was watching over me on my first traffic stop for driving while black
There has been renewed attention to racial profiling and the epidemic of police brutality. This personal account of racial profiling has become one of many for me.
8 years ago
Alt-right flyers posted throughout three Pennsylvania college campuses
More college campuses in Pennsylvania recently got a visit from a group identified as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Pove ...
8 years ago
Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials
Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000. The syndrome can occur if a woman ...
8 years ago
Vietnam: The war that was waged in my head
In the winter of my 13th year, I made a momentous life decision. I marched into my parents’ suburban kitchen and declared that when ...
8 years ago
Older Americans drinking to ‘unprecedented’ level, study finds
Across the country, alcohol use — and misuse — have gone up among older adults, researchers say. The new study in JAMA Psychia ...
8 years ago
Five ways Hollywood looks at Vietnam [video]
As Ken Burns turns his documentary lens on Vietnam, WHYY’s Patrick Stoner examines five ways Hollywood has explored the war. ...
8 years ago
This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...
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Op-ed: Hate mail from a ‘friend’
When my friend Bonnie told me she received a three-page letter in the mail, it piqued my interest. Who writes anything longer than a twee ...
8 years ago
It’s nearly impossible to have a conversation about education in Delaware today without talking about the poor academic performance ...
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Delaware Symphony Orchestra launches ‘ambitious’ season in Wilmington
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra launches one of the most ambitious seasons in its 111-year history tonight with the indelible four-note o ...
8 years ago
Combative man taken into police custody after nighttime ocean rescue
A combative man was taken into police custody Wednesday night after firefighters rescued him from a rip current in Monmouth County, autho ...
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An ignorant America endangers democracy
Donald Trump famously declared, “I love the poorly educated!” and w ...
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Advice from Superstorm Sandy survivors: ‘Document everything’
New Jerseyans who survived Hurricane Sandy five years ago have watched heartbroken as scenes of devastation have unfolded in Houston and ...
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Father of road rage victim to help in Hurricane Irma recovery efforts
Rodney Roberson hasn’t set foot on a ship in months. He’s been too devastated. “All the police and investigators ...
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New Miss America chides Trump for withdrawing from international climate accord
A new Miss America was crowned in Atlantic City on Sunday night as Miss North Dakota Cara Mund prevailed over 50 ...
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