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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Gender

It has been two years since the start of the #MeToo movement, with many powerful men accused of sexual misconduct. Some are now attempting comebacks, raising questions about rehabilitation, redemption and reentry. (Matt Chinworth for NPR)
NPR
Community

Is redemption possible in the aftermath of #MeToo?

"We have to grapple with this question of who can come back and who can't," says Tarana Burke, the activist who coined the term "Me Too" years before it went viral in 2017.

6 years ago

In this June 20, 2019 file photo, The Supreme Court is seen under stormy skies in Washington.  The Supreme Court is adding an abortion case to its busy election-year docket. The justices have agreed to take up a Louisiana law that could leave the state with just one clinic. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Supreme Court to hear abortion regulation case

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to plunge into the abortion debate in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign.

6 years ago

Jaribu Hill speaks at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Miss., during a reception honoring the life of civil rights activist Unita Blackwell. (Meredith Williams via AP)
Courts & Law

Lawyers fight for everyday women bringing #MeToo complaints

The Times Up fund, administered by the National Women's Law Center, has received more than 3,670 requests for assistance and has funded 160 cases via $24 million donations.

6 years ago

Some insurers using this new payment model offer a single fee to one OB-GYN or medical practice, which then uses part of that money to cover the hospital care involved in labor and delivery. Other insurers opt to cut a separate contract with the hospital. (Adene Sanchez/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

A new way of paying for maternity care aims to reduce c-sections

Instead of paying doctors piecemeal for prenatal appointments and delivery of the baby, some insurers now offer medical practices one lump sum to cover it all.

6 years ago

NPR
Health

‘Tip of the iceberg’ — 1 in 16 women reports first sexual experience as rape

More than 3 million women experienced rape as their first sexual encounter, according to a new study, which surveyed women ages 18 to 44.

6 years ago

The former clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

West Philly abortion doctor’s ‘house of horrors’ listed for sheriff’s sale. Anti-choice activists want to buy it.

The former clinic is listed for sheriff’s sale. Anti-abortion activists, some of whom will gather Saturday at the grave of Gosnell’s victims, want to buy it.

6 years ago

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One of the Plastic Army Women that toy company BMC Toys will be introducing next year after a six-year-old girl from Arkansas wrote a letter to the company wondering why there were no female soldiers. (Courtesy of BMC Toys)
NPR
Community

Her own toy story: How a 6-year-old girl’s letter launched ‘Plastic Army Women’

The Green Army Women figurines will now be available by Christmas 2020 in four different military poses.

6 years ago

A kindergarten teacher and her students at KIPP Thrive Academy, are pictured in this file photo, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Newark, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Education

N.J. teachers don’t mirror racial, gender makeup of student population, report says

A report from New Jersey Policy Perspective, a progressive think tank, says the state’s teaching workforce does not resemble the state’s student body.

6 years ago

Kyle Tanguay, Swoop and two other members of the Eagles cheer squad (Twitter / @ktangkyle)
Lifestyle
Billy Penn

10 things to know about Kyle Tanguay, the Eagles’ first male cheerleader in 35 years

He’s a New Hampshire native and UArts dance major, and yes, he’s taken.

6 years ago

Wilma Mishoe has been named the first permanent female president of Delaware State University. She has been interim president since January. The bust next to her is of her father Luna, who was the school's president from 1960 to 1987.
Education
The Philadelphia Tribune

First woman president of Delaware State University stepping down after two years

Wilma Mishoe, 70, will step down from the historically Black university at the end of the year, according to the university’s website.

6 years ago

Young soccer fans play pickup games on the grass outside Lincoln Financial Field while waiting for the start of the U.S. Women’s soccer game against Portugal. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

U.S. Women’s Soccer team draws record crowd to South Philly

It was the largest crowd ever to see the U.S. team play a friendly match. Fans hope it’s a sign of things to come.

6 years ago

Listen 1:48
The Sandy Hook lighthouse, first built in 1764, stands Jan. 22, 2002, behind buildings that were once part of the Army's Fort Hancock, located on Sandy Hook, N.J. (Mike Derer/AP Photo)
Community

‘Mind the light’: Women lighthouse keepers’ little-known stories shared through historical records, public memory

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn spoke with lighthouse researcher Shauna MacDonald about the little-known women in history who ran them.

6 years ago

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Women officers are graduated from the Philadelphia Police Academy on October 9, 1976. (James A. Craig/Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA)
The Why
Community

Female cops face a blue wall of silence when reporting sexual harassment

Richard Ross resigned after ignoring sexual harassment claims filed by a female officer. Could there be a systemic problem within the Philadelphia Police Department?

Air Date: August 28, 2019

Listen 17:05
Acting Philadelphia Police Commissioner Christine Coulter (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
Billy Penn

Philly just got its first female police commissioner — 45 years after top cop used ‘God’s wisdom’ to keep women off the force

The 1970s PPD was wary of hormones, bad bones and gullibility.

6 years ago

Christa Hayburn, a former PPD officer, at her home in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philly’s female cops sue police department over civil rights abuses every other month, records show

The misconduct lawsuit that unraveled ex-Commissioner Richard Ross’s career is one of dozens in recent years.

6 years ago

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