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Jamaican Reggae singer Bob Marley performs on stage during a concert in Bourget, Paris, on July 3, 1980. (AP Photo/Str)
Community

Wilmington leans into Bob Marley connection with plans for museum to promote cultural awareness

Bob Marley's cousin Judy Malcolm is spearheading the effort to create a Jamaican Heritage and Reggae Museum in Wilmington to empower culture and revive unity.

1 year ago

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee
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Politics & Policy

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House Republicans

Mayorkas becomes the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876. The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to leave Mayorkas in office.

1 year ago

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., discusses next steps for the foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel on the day after the bipartisan Senate border security bill collapsed, at the Capitol in on Wednesday.
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Politics & Policy

Senate GOP blocks border bill, Democrats shift focus to Israel and Ukraine aid

After four months of bipartisan talks on border security Senate Republicans backed off backing changes to the Biden administration's policies they demanded.

1 year ago

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Winter Meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024.
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Politics & Policy

House fails to pass articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

Republicans failed to advance impeachment articles for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas but left open the possibility of revisiting the vote at a l

1 year ago

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told reporters that a planned vote on the bipartisan border bill he helped write could be doomed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Politics & Policy

Senate Republicans cast serious doubt on fate of bipartsian immigration deal

A bipartisan foreign military aid and immigration reform package is teetering ahead of a Wednesday vote in the face of Republican opposition.

1 year ago

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies on Capitol Hill in November 2023. Alex Brandon/AP
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Politics & Policy

House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security’s Mayorkas

Republicans contend Mayorkas' "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" on immigration amounts to "high crimes and misdemeanors."

1 year ago

Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (center) speaks at a news conference after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in Washington.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Senate border negotiations forge ahead despite pressure from Trump

Senate negotiators are continuing to work on a bipartisan border deal even after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested the politics around the agreement have shifted.

2 years ago

Immigrants wait to be processed at a border patrol transit center.
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Health

More states extend health coverage to immigrants even as issue inflames GOP

More than 1 million immigrants are covered by state health programs. Several states, including GOP-led Utah, will soon add or expand such coverage.

2 years ago

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (center) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (top left, partially covered) and his Secretary of Foreign Relations Alicia Barcena (top right) at the National Palace, the office and residence of the president, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023.
Politics & Policy

Mexican officials clear border camp as US pressure mounts to limit migrant crossings

Mexican immigration officials are clearing out a migrant camp on the banks of the Rio Grande as U.S. pressure mounts to limit a surge of people reaching the border.

2 years ago

Advocates rally for the end of medical deportations in Philadelphia.
Politics & Policy

Philly is the first city in the U.S. to ban medical deportations. Here’s what that means

The new law provides guidelines for how hospitals should treat immigrant patients and gives immigrants more say.

2 years ago

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Alejandro Mayorkas
Politics & Policy

Senate border security talks grind on as Trump invokes Nazi-era ‘blood’ rhetoric against immigrants

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said about the record numbers of immigrants coming to the U.S. without immediate legal status.

2 years ago

People holding up signs in City COuncil
Politics & Policy

In a 14-1 vote, Philadelphia becomes first city to deem ‘medical deportation’ unlawful

After a three-year campaign, immigrant advocates are one step closer to banning the practice of medical deportation.

2 years ago

Elhadji Ndiaye at the studio.
Community

WURD’s ‘Radio XALAAT’ gives Philly’s African diaspora ‘a home on the radio dial’

A weekly radio program has served Philadelphia’s African diaspora for decades. As ‘Africatown’ comes into force, Radio XALAAT’s host looks back.

2 years ago

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ICE officials
Courts & Law

Philly immigrant groups accuse federal officials of preying on people passing through courthouse

The group says immigration officials are lurking inside and outside the courts to catch undocumented immigrants and hold them.

2 years ago

A former church is visible between rowhomes
Community

A home at last: Greater Philadelphia’s small Tibetan community will soon have a cultural center of their own

Besides serving as a place to gather and celebrate festivals and community events, the center will also be home to the Tibetan Sunday school.

2 years ago

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