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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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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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History

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Community

New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims

The memorial opens the same week that Alabama marks Confederate Memorial Day, an official state holiday in which state offices will close.

4 hours ago

Former United States Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the National Constitution Center's event,
Community

Former U.S. attorney general predicts continuing wave of political engagement

Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at National Constitution Center to mark 150th anniversary of 14th Amendment

13 hours ago

Family heir Ben duPont and former DuPont Company executive Don Wirth are the new owners of the DuPont Country Club. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

New owners investing millions to update DuPont Country Club

Family heir Ben duPont and a former DuPont Company executive recently announced they’re not only buying the DuPont Country Club, but also investing millions to spruce it up.

1 day ago

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Mummers off Broad: New book of photos documents a decade of wenches

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

4 days ago

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Goat head made of copper alloy, shell and stone, 2475-2300 BCE. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Penn Museum opens new Middle East gallery

The Penn Museum has greatly expanded its Middle East gallery, the first part of a building-wide renovation.

6 days ago

Representative John Lewis thanks the crowd gathered at St. Joseph's University on April 16th 2018 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's death.
Community

Fifty years after King speech, John Lewis honors his mentor at St. Joe’s

Lewis, the longtime civil rights activist, spoke as part of a year-long series commemorating Martin Luther King's 1967 address at St. Joe's.

1 week ago

A cloud of smoke rises following a U.S.-led air strike attack near Baghdad on arch 20, 2003.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

With murmurs of war growing, 2018 could be a national security election

The Iraq War’s disastrous aftermath offered my younger self a harsh lesson: Our great and generous nation can be ruled — and also diminished — by mediocre men.

2 weeks ago

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, (center right), and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, (center left), walk in the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former Nazi German death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, April 12, 2018. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)
Community

Israeli, Polish presidents join Holocaust remembrance march

The presidents of Israel and Poland joined thousands of others Thursday for a Holocaust remembrance event at the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau.

2 weeks ago

Beer is an alcoholic drink made from yeast-fermented malt flavored with hops. (Big Stock photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Cheers! It’s time, once again, to celebrate the end of Prohibition

Grin and beer it: On April 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt legalized the sale and consumption of beer in the U.S. after 13 years of Prohibition.

3 weeks ago

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One of the two reading rooms in The Athenaeum of Philadelphia (photo credit: Tom Crane)
PlanPhilly
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Inside the Society Hill library where ‘hidden’ Philadelphia lives in 19th-century grandeur

Philadelphia’s popular landmarks tell a story about the city. They serve as a physical embodiment of a familiar history.

3 weeks ago

Winston Churchill
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Churchill had a tendency to tipple, but the ‘British Bulldog’ was no boozehound

'The Darkest Hour seems to show the prime minister with a whisky in every scene, but as he famously said, 'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'

3 weeks ago

Sheraton Hotel floor supervisor Alton Sawyer is fasting Wednesday to bring awareness to the issues facing workers of the Philadelphia hospitality industry. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

In spirit of King, Philly hospitality workers continue to press for economic justice

The gathering marked the 50th anniversary of MLK’s death in Memphis as he supported the rights of black sanitation workers — including their right to unionize.

3 weeks ago

A sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. by Zenos Frudakis is destined for a sculpture garden where it will join likenesses of Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. (Scott Grote/WHYY)
Community

The subject of a lifetime: Glenside artist Zenos Frudakis has been sculpting MLK since ’80s

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with a local artist about creating sculptures of Martin Luther King Jr. since the 1980s.

3 weeks ago

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In this April 3, 1968 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his last public appearance at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. The following day King was assassinated on his motel balcony. (Charles Kelly/AP Photo, File)
Community

King’s final speech ‘transformational’ for Philadelphia pastor

Bishop J. Louis Felton thinks about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. every day. That’s been especially true this week.

3 weeks ago

After rioting in Wilmington following King's death, the governor ordered in the National Guard to restore order. The Guard stayed for nine months. (Photo Courtesy/Delaware  Historical Society)
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Wilmington Siege: Moving Forward 50 Years Later

50 years ago, the National Guard was called out to stop rioting in Wilmington, Delaware. The troops stayed for 9 months. Through archival ...

Air Date: April 4, 2018

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