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A line of police stands in front of platform from which Dr. Martin Luther King speaks during mass meeting in front of all-white Girard College in Philadelphia August 4, 1965. Dr. King said the wall surrounding the school was a symbol of evil and called for continued efforts to integrate the school.
The Why
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Protest’s living legacy: Why activists are still protesting five decades after MLK

How has protesting in America — and Philadelphia — changed since Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for civil rights and how effective is it?

Air Date: January 21, 2019

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In this Jan. 18, 2019, file photo passengers wait in line at a security checkpoint at Miami International Airport in Miami. While security screeners and air traffic controllers have been told to keep working, Federal Aviation Administration safety inspectors weren’t, until the agency began recalling some Jan. 12. About 2,200 of the more than 3,000 inspectors are now back on the job, overseeing work done by airlines, aircraft manufacturers and repair shops. The government says they’re doing critical work but forgoing such tasks as issuing new pilot certificates. (Lynne Sladky, AP)
Government Accountability

Americans take stock of shutdown’s everyday effects

The budget standoff between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats is rippling into some unexpected places.

7 years ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief, walk from a photo opportunity at the The Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
International

Trump says ‘things are going very well’ with North Korea

Trump said he plans a second summit with leader Kim Jong Un to try to broker a deal that would entice the North to give up its nuclear weapons.

7 years ago

President Trump speaks about the partial government shutdown, immigration and border security in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House Saturday.
(Alex Brandon/AP)
NPR
Immigration
National

Democrats reject Trump border wall proposal, calling it a ‘non-starter’

Trump offered to back temporary protections for some immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, many of whom are now adults.

7 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
National

Pelosi dismisses Trump proposal, Senate to take up plan

Minutes before Trump was to unveil his plan at the White House, the California Democrat said early reports about the proposal indicated it was insufficient.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump greets Col. Dawn C. Lancaster, Commander Air Force Mortuary Affairs, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, as he arrives to pay tribute to the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria as their remains are returned as Chief Master Sgt. Danielle M. Hirvela, Chief Enlisted Manager, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, second from left, and Chief Master Sgt. Anthony W. Green Command Chief Master Sergeant, 436th Airlift Wing, Dover Air Force Base, (left), watch. Following Trump are Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, (right). (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Delaware
Military

President Trump travels to Delaware paying tribute to Americans killed in Syrian attack

Trump was paying tribute to the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria this week as he set off to Dover Air Force Base for the return of their remains.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speak to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)
National

Trump expected to float 'Dreamers' for border money proposal

Trump is expected to announce that in exchange for funding the border wall he is open to trading protections for young people brought to the country illegally as children.

7 years ago

U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh-area legislators want hearing on Clairton Coke Works

Officials want answers on Allegheny County’s response to pollution at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works after a Christmas Eve fire damaged air pollution controls at the plant.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 15, 2019, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to speak to reporters following a weekly policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Government Accountability
National

McConnell’s maneuvers take backseat to Trump in shutdown

McConnell said the "solution to the problem" is for the president, who he reminds is the only one who can sign a bill into law, to reach an agreement with Democratic leaders.

7 years ago

A spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller says BuzzFeed's description
Law
National

Mueller disputes report that Trump directed lawyer to lie

Mueller's office on Friday night said, "BuzzFeed's description of specific statements ... regarding Michael Cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate."

7 years ago

President Donald Trump  (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Immigration

Trump to address shutdown, Mexican border Saturday

President plans 'major announcement' from White House at 3 p.m. Saturday.

7 years ago

In December 2018, Katie Brennan, the chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, raises her hand as she is sworn in to testify before the Select Oversight Committee at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey

Murphy chief counsel says he followed rules in keeping rape allegation from governor

Matt Platkin told N.J. lawmakers he didn't inform Gov. Phil Murphy about the assault claim because he thought Equal Employment Opportunity rules required confidentiality.

7 years ago

President Trump called for a beefing up of existing defenses, such as the Aegis ashore system pictured. In addition, he called for research into new advanced concepts.
(Mark Wright/Missile Defense Agency)
NPR
Military
Space

Trump unveils ambitious missile defense plans

Critics were quick to point out that meeting this goal would cost many billions of dollars.

7 years ago

In this Dec. 7, 2018 file photo, Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building in New York. (Richard Drew/AP Photo, File)
Law
National

Congress to probe report Trump told lawyer Cohen to lie

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement Friday that "any suggestion — from any source — that the President counseled Michael Cohen to lie is categorically false."

7 years ago

Former Philadelphia City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Tribune

Blondell Reynolds Brown to step down from City Council

Reynolds Brown will not seek re-election in the Democratic primary in May.

7 years ago

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