NewsWorks Tonight, July 23, 2018
Listen 23:28The Made in America Festival returns to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Outreach workers are finding it difficult to raise awareness about ways to prevent HIV to those at risk. Dr. Kyle Farmbry, Dean of the Graduate School at Rutger-Newark, discusses the newly-launched University Alliance for Refugees and At-Risk Migrants. This year’s outdoor performances of Shakespeare in West Philadelphia’s Clark Park will have a glam-rock feel. Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, discusses what’s normal when it comes to moons.
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