Skip to content
Get a fresh perspective of people, events and trends that shape our world.  A mix of news, features, interviews and music from around the world presents an engaging portrait of the global community.

The World

Listen Live

Listen Live

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.
Next

1A

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.

WHYY
rewind
play
fast-forward
 
 
 
Schedule
WHYY
Primary Menu
  • News
    • Coronavirus
      • COVID-19 Vaccines
      • Health Desk Help Desk
      • Daily Newsletter
      • FAQ: COVID Apps
    • PlanPhilly
    • Politics & Policy
    • Community
    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Education
    • Health & Science
    • Courts & Law
    • Money
    • Lifestyle
  • Radio & Podcasts
    • Radio Schedule
    • Ways to Listen
    • WHYY App
  • TV
    • Live TV
    • TV Schedule
    • Watch on Demand
    • WHYY Passport
      • Activation Assistance and FAQ
      • Free PBS Video App
      • Become a WHYY Passport Member
  • Arts
  • Events
    • Email Alerts
    • Updates on Postponed Events
    • Contact Us
  • Education
    • Youth Media Awards Application
    • Learning at Home
      • PBS LearningMedia
      • Watch PBS Kids Online
      • WHYY Learning Shorts
      • Teachers: Submit Your Videos
    • Summer Camps
    • For Students
      • Summer Camps
      • Summer Reading
    • Pathways to Media Careers
    • Student Work
    • WHYY Media Labs
  • LIVE TV
  • For Kids
  • Support
    • Member Benefits
      • WHYY Passport
        • Ardently Austen
          • WHYY Passport
          • Watch Pride and Prejudice
          • Become a Passport member
      • Museums & Education Discounts
      • Music & Theater Discounts
      • Food & Dining Discounts
      • Retail & More Discounts
    • Donor Program
    • Sponsorship
      • Lifelong Learning Award
    • WHYY Game Changers
      • The Game Plan
      • Donate
    • Vehicle Donation
    • Volunteer
    • Door to Door Outreach
    • Matching Gifts
    • Planned Giving
    • Charitable Annuity
    • Appreciated Securities
    • License Plate
  • Donate

Housing

On March 5, 2021, at her warming center in the Yorkship Family School gym, Tawanda Jones, right, tries to convince a patron known as Sarah Ann to allow Jones to help her rent a room at a boarding house. Sarah Ann had told Jones that if there was nowhere else to go that night, she would sleep in Camden's Evergreen Cemetery.  (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Community

‘True Blue’: A day in the life of the woman helping Camden’s unhoused people escape the cold

Tawanda Jones was on a mission to relocate dozens of people from a school gym, to keep them warm over the weekend.

2 days ago

Racqueal Howard on the porch of the property she won in the Philadelphia Housing Authority-Jumpstart lottery in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia. She plans to renovate the home and sell it to a family. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

How a Philly woman is building her business on a $10 house won in a lottery

Racqueal Howard won an only-in-Philly lottery and is now moving forward with a plan to redevelop a vacant Philadelphia Housing Authority property.

5 days ago

A 2019 file photo of a North Philadelphia rooming house. Many returning citizens live in unregulated rooming houses because they have few other options. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Disrupting poverty in Philly with housing help for people returning from prison

Pa. has the second-highest imprisonment rate in the U.S. The Supervision to Aid Re-Entry (STAR) program connects returning citizens with the support they need.

1 week ago

Rowhouses line North 29th Street in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Home appraisals drive America’s racial wealth gap — 95% of Philly’s appraisers are white.

Appraisal bias contributes to wealth disparities and segregation in Philadelphia and other cities. Diversifying the appraisal industry would help.

2 weeks ago

Tents and sleeping bags line the tunnels of the Locust Street Patco Station in Center City on Feb. 23, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Philly, PATCO respond to Center City transit station encampment with social services

People set up tents inside the underground concourse at 12th and Locust streets seeking warmth and shelter during the recent snow emergency.

2 weeks ago

Apartments are seen in Hilltop west of downtown Wilmington
Politics & Policy

Wilmington approves weekly fines for landlords who don’t maintain properties

After several years of sometimes bitter debate, Wilmington council has approved an ordinance creating civil fines for landlords who don’t maintain their properties.

2 weeks ago

At the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden in Kensington, the words “Not for sale” are painted on the street as a message to developers and the city. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Philadelphia Land Bank is finally selling its vacant lots. Now the question is who will benefit

Philadelphia Land Bank officials say a reformed system is producing better results yet critics see a process that advantages developers over residents.

3 weeks ago

President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office
Politics & Policy

Biden extends pandemic help for homeowners, renters wait

The moratorium on foreclosures of federally guaranteed mortgages had been set to expire on March 31.

3 weeks ago

The exterior of the Gloria Casarez Residence
Politics & Policy

Philly advocates praise HUD investigations into LGBTQ discrimination

The new rule is a reaction to former HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s move to withdraw certain protections.

3 weeks ago

Michael Salemno sits on a stoop outside
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

The inside story of how Pa. failed to deliver millions in coronavirus rent relief

A review of thousands of emails reveals the program was doomed to fail from the start, depriving desperate tenants of relief as they lived in fear of losing their homes.

3 weeks ago

A foreclosure sign (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Community

Growing surge of Philly homeowners risk foreclosure as pandemic continues

Experts say the number of people falling behind on their mortgages is growing to levels rivaling those seen during the 2008 housing crisis.

1 month ago

Marta and her daughter, Krishna, hug one another lovingly in their living room. Marta was only able to bring Krishna to the United States, leaving her two sons behind in Guatemala. | Marta y su hija, Krishna, se abrazan en su sala de estar. Marta solo pudo traer a Krishna a los Estados Unidos, dejando a sus dos hijos en Guatemala. (Tony Rocco/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Bilingual version

En South Philly, three immigrant mothers came together to form una ‘bonita familia’

Women account for a growing share of Latin American immigrants settling in the U.S. In Philly, three mothers share resources to thrive in their new home.

1 month ago

Listen 5:29
Marta and her daughter, Krishna, hug one another lovingly in their living room. Marta was only able to bring Krishna to the United States, leaving her two sons behind in Guatemala. | Marta y su hija, Krishna, se abrazan en su sala de estar. Marta solo pudo traer a Krishna a los Estados Unidos, dejando a sus dos hijos en Guatemala. (Tony Rocco/WHYY)
Community
Version en Español

En la calle Wolf tres mujeres, inmigrantes, se juntan para armar una ‘bonita familia’

Las mujeres representan una proporción mayor de inmigrantes que se establecen en los EE. UU. En Filadelfia, tres madres comparten recursos para prosperar.

1 month ago

Listen 5:29
Marta and her daughter, Krishna, hug one another lovingly in their living room. Marta was only able to bring Krishna to the United States, leaving her two sons behind in Guatemala. | Marta y su hija, Krishna, se abrazan en su sala de estar. Marta solo pudo traer a Krishna a los Estados Unidos, dejando a sus dos hijos en Guatemala. (Tony Rocco/WHYY)
Community
English version

On Wolf Street, three immigrant mothers came together to form a ‘beautiful’ family

Women account for a growing share of Latin American immigrants settling in the U.S. In Philly, three mothers share resources to thrive in their new home.

1 month ago

Listen 5:29
Hope Center executive director Kim Eppehimer talks to guest David Hicks in the lobby. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Del. ‘Swamp Hotel’ now a swank ‘stepping stone’ for people experiencing homelessness

New Castle County bought the hotel to create a comprehensive shelter and service center to help guests transition to stable, permanent housing.

1 month ago

Listen 6:01
Page 1 of 3712345...»Last »
Arts & Entertainment Community Courts & Law Education Health Lifestyle Money Politics & Policy Science Urban Planning Weather
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Top Stories

  • Philly Fighting COVID CEO Andrei Doroshin inside his apartment building
    COVID-19 Vaccines

    Philly Fighting COVID vaccine partnership put city ‘at great risk,’ says inspector general

  • The Delaware State House in Dover. (Tom Byrne/Delaware Public Media)
    Politics & Policy

    Delaware lawmakers renew push for $15 minimum wage

  • A worker prepares a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine
    COVID-19 Vaccines

    Philly suburbs, state health officials spar over accusations of ‘short-changed’ vaccine doses

  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Want a digest of WHYY’s programs, events & stories? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Together we can reach 100% of WHYY’s fiscal year goal

Donate
Learn about WHYY Member benefits
Ways to Donate
WHYY

WHYY connects you to the Greater Philly community by providing trustworthy, fact-based, local news and information and world-class entertainment. WHYY is our community. WHYY is you.

Contact Us

Philadelphia

215.351.1200
talkback@whyy.org

Delaware

302.516.7506
talkback@whyy.org

Our Programs

  • Billy Penn
  • Check, Please! Philly
  • Consider This
  • Delishtory
  • Eleanor Amplified
  • Flicks
  • Fresh Air
  • House Concert Series
  • Keystone Crossroads
  • Movers & Makers
  • On Stage at Curtis
  • PlanPhilly
  • The Pulse
  • Radio Times
  • Schooled
  • StateImpact
  • Things To Do
  • Voices in the Family
  • Women 100
  • You Oughta Know
  • Young Creators Studio
  • Your Democracy

Inside WHYY

  • About
    • Press Room
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • WHYY Productions
    • WHYY Spaces
    • Employment
    • Submissions
    • History
    • WHYY Community Report
    • Directions
    • Coverage Area
    • Financial Statements
    • Board and Executives
    • Internships
    • Community Advisory Board
    • Supporters
    • Privacy
  • Employment
  • Sounding Board
  • N.I.C.E. Initiative
  • Contact Us
  • Sponsorship
  • Directions
  • FCC Public Files

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Sign up for a Newsletter

© WHYY 2021

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use for WHYY.org

WHYY is partnered with