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Black Lives Matter

Diversity, equity and inclusion: it's an education some parents want to be left out of their child's curriculum. It's become a hot-button issue for the Downingtown Area School District. (6ABC)
Education
6ABC

Petition calls for end to diversity, equity & inclusion in Downingtown schools

When someone forwarded Brandyn Campbell a petition calling for the end of diversity programs in her child's school district, she felt hurt and disappointed.

4 years ago

Isaac Gardner speaks while holding up a photo of David Jones
Courts & Law

Why Krasner is asking Pa.’s high court to change how jurors hear use-of-force law

The unusual request is the beginning of a potentially long legal process that has delayed the trial of the first on-duty Philly officer charged with murder in nearly 20 years.

4 years ago

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens to verdicts at his trial in April for the 2020 death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges in state court and is scheduled to be sentenced June 25.
Court TV via AP
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Courts & Law

Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22.5 years for George Floyd’s murder

The punishment exceeds the state's minimum guidelines but falls short of prosecutors' request of a 30-year sentence.

4 years ago

In this April 20, 2021 file image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin's trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd,, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Nelson has requested a new trial, saying the court abused its discretion when it refused to change the venue in the original proceedings, according to a court document filed Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
Courts & Law

Judge rejects Chauvin’s request for new trial in Floyd death

Judge Peter Cahill denied the request Friday, saying defense attorney Eric Nelson has not shown that abused its discretion and denied Chauvin the right to a fair trial.

4 years ago

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Community

Big companies are finding out they need help with diversity messaging

The murder of George Floyd forced American companies to reckon with racial inequality in ways few had before.

4 years ago

(Juneteenth Lehigh Valley)
Community

Lehigh Valley launches a Juneteenth festival just as it becomes a national holiday

A year in planning, the new large-scale event at ArtsQuest teaches people what Juneteenth is about.

4 years ago

Bessie Cunningham, 99, was involved in the Berwyn School Strike in the 1930s. The strike is hailed as helping to lay the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education. (Cunningham family)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

Suburban Philadelphia district’s equity initiative provokes anger over critical race theory

Tredyffrin-Easttown was the site of historic segregation fight.

4 years ago

City officials and members of the Pathways to Reform, Transformation and Reconciliation steering committee join hands at the Octavius Catto statue for a moment of silence. The committee was formed after the murder of George Floyd and the civil unrest that followed. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Does the U.S. need a truth and reconciliation commission?

After the social unrest prompted by the murder of George Floyd, some are asking: Is it finally time for the U.S. to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Air Date: June 18, 2021

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City officials and members of the Pathways to Reform, Transformation and Reconciliation steering committee join hands at the Octavius Catto statue for a moment of silence. The committee was formed after the murder of George Floyd and the civil unrest that followed. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Kenney offers sober progress report on Philly’s fight against systemic racism

Philadelphia’s Pathways to Reform, Transformation, and Reconciliation initiative took flight last summer in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

4 years ago

Patrick Duff, who has been fighting to save the house at 753 Walnut Street in Camden where Martin Luther King lived in 1950, inside the structure on June 10, 2021. (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Community

‘A place that can inspire the world’: A deal is struck to save Camden’s MLK house

A nonprofit is purchasing the decaying Walnut Street house where Martin Luther King Jr. lived when he was denied service at a Maple Shade bar in 1950.

4 years ago

A police body camera image shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier (third from right filming) as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was recorded pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck in Minneapolis. (Minneapolis Police Department via AP)
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Community

Darnella Frazier, who filmed George Floyd’s murder, wins an honorary Pulitzer

The video played a major role in igniting a global protest movement against police violence, and was used as evidence in the trial of Floyd's killer.

4 years ago

Woodlands Cemetery
Arts & Entertainment

The Crossing performs an elegy to Breonna Taylor and the pandemic

`We Got Time’ by Matana Roberts is an elegy to both Taylor and the year of the pandemic.

4 years ago

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A protester calls out to police standing guard behind security fencing
Community

A year later, racial reckoning yields uncertainty in giving

Though discussion about increasing diversity in all aspects of American life goes on and some changes have been adopted, advocates so far see little systemic progress.

4 years ago

A police officer moves through tear gas deployed to disperse a crowd as Justice for George Floyd Philadelphia protests continue in Philly
Courts & Law

Victims mark first anniversary of Philadelphia tear gas incidents on 52nd Street, I-676

Attorneys released new video footage of the I-676 incident showing protesters cornered by police at a fenced embankment.

4 years ago

The crowd at the Art Museum continues to grow, protesting the police violence that killed George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
Billy Penn

A week that changed Philadelphia: How the George Floyd protests unfolded

The timeline of eight days that will go down in Philly history.

4 years ago

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