NewsWorks Tonight, January 15, 2018
Listen 21:09Grassroots campaigns are popping up for Pennsylvania’s first congressional district seat. Philadelphia’s black community still feels the impact of a brief speech made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Penn University chaplain Charles Howard embraces King’s pleas to “Love your enemies.” Pennsylvania slows down its wind energy sector. Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, spotlights those who set foot on Earth’s moon.
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