
History
So you began your event with an indigenous land acknowledgement. Now what?
Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments.
2 months ago
16 history museums get their stolen guns back
Law enforcement spent 14 years hunting for 36 historic guns stolen 50 years ago — they turned up in Newark, Delaware.
3 months ago
‘Fosbury Flop’ high jumper Dick Fosbury dies at 76
The lanky leaper completely revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with what is now the most-used technique for elite high jumpers.
3 months ago
St. Patrick’s Day festivities off to an early start in Philadelphia
The 2023 parade theme "St. Patrick, Let There Be Peace" centers on the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
3 months ago
Listen 0:50Owner of Martin Luther King Jr. house that burned in Camden vows to rebuild
Pastor Khan says Dr. King spent time at the New Jersey home from 1948 to 1951 while studying at the Crozer Theological Seminary.
3 months ago
Fire destroys former home of Dr. Martin Luther King in Camden, New Jersey
The home was empty for many years and there has been a push to raise money to fix it.
3 months ago
Not so quiet quitting: In 1747, the mayor of Philadelphia ran away from the job
Anthony Morris was a successful 18th century Philadelphia brewer. He was also elected mayor — but not more than once.
3 months ago
Notable women in Philly history you might not know — but definitely should
Two abolitionists, a scientist, an artist, an athlete, and an activist whose legacies will live on in Philadelphia lore.
3 months ago
In Selma, Biden says right to vote remains under assault
Biden was among those commemorating the anniversary of the brutal attack by authorities on peaceful civil rights demonstrators as they marched along the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
3 months ago
2 South African artists converse across the apartheid timeline at the Barnes
The Barnes Foundation hosts work by two artists: one making work since apartheid, the other growing up in post-apartheid South Africa.
3 months ago
How to Confront Our Nation’s Past
If we want to make progress, we need to talk honestly about the most painful parts of America's history. So how do we help people reckon with, and not resist, the past?
Air Date: March 3, 2023 12:00 pm
Listen 50:43Zandra Flemister blazed a tough trail in the Secret Service. Now she’s getting credit
Flemister, who died last week, was the first Black woman to serve as a special agent in the 1970s, but was forced out by racial discrimination.
3 months ago
‘Powder keg’ for 9/11: 1993 trade center bombing remembered
The explosion in an underground parking garage killed six people, including a pregnant woman. More than 1,000 people were injured.
3 months ago
Gov. Murphy also announced initiatives he said will positively impact communities of color across the state.
3 months ago
1787 letter from cash-poor George Washington hailed as ‘great discovery’
The man later known as the Father of His Country tried to raise money after the Revolutionary War ended by unloading some of his vast land holdings.
3 months ago