NWT Full Show, Jan. 16, 2012

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    We bring you coverage of Vice President Biden’s visit to Girard College, and Mayor Michael Nutter’s MLK Day message of non-violence.  We alsk talk to the curator of Temple’s archive of civil rights artifacts and media footage, now available online.  Carolyn Beeler talks to the New Jersey parents of a girl fighting to get a kidney transplant at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  Derrick Pitts joins us for his weekly look at the stars.  And Chris Satullo suggests the recent turmoil over school closures and teacher layoffs is a collective failure of everyone in our community.

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