Skip to content
Think is a national call-in radio program, hosted by acclaimed journalist Krys Boyd and produced by KERA — North Texas’ PBS and NPR member station. Each week, listeners across the country tune in to the program to hear thought-provoking, in-depth conversations with newsmakers from across the globe.

Think with Krys Boyd

Listen Live

Listen Live

Everything you need to know about what’s happening in the Delaware Valley – from news and politics to science and the arts– delivered with a fresh perspective, all in an hour. Learn something new and add your voice to energizing live conversations with co-hosts Avi Wolfman-Arent and Cherri Gregg.
Next

Studio 2

Everything you need to know about what’s happening in the Delaware Valley – from news and politics to science and the arts– delivered with a fresh perspective, all in an hour. Learn something new and add your voice to energizing live conversations with co-hosts Avi Wolfman-Arent and Cherri Gregg.

WHYY
rewind
play
fast-forward
 
 
 
Radio Schedule
WHYY
  • DONATE
Primary Menu
  • News
  • Radio & Podcasts
    • Radio Schedule
    • Ways to Stream
    • WHYY Listen App
  • TV
    • WHYY TV Schedule
    • WHYY Watch App
    • Live TV
    • Watch on Demand
    • Stream PBS Kids
  • Arts
  • Events
  • Education
    • WHYY Youth Media
    • WHYY Media Labs
    • WHYY Early Education Programs
    • For Students
    • Pathways to Media Careers
    • Youth Media Awards
  • Support
    • Membership
    • WHYY Passport
    • WHYY Member Portal
    • Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donation Program
    • Volunteer
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE

Income Inequality

The smokestack of the Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility looms over a residential street in Chester. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Urban Planning

Philly’s trash is Chester’s air pollution

Philadelphia sends one-third of its trash to an incinerator in Chester deemed by researchers to be one of the dirtiest in the nation.

Air Date: June 17, 2019

Listen 10:53
Tyrone Webb stirs green paint in a small room in Suburban Station. He's painting as part of the Same Day Work program. (Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Community
Broke in Philly

Philly launched a program to put homeless people to work. Here’s what happened.

The Same Day Work program — developed by Mural Arts with the Scattergood Foundation and MHP, and funded by private philanthropy — is eight weeks into a two-year pilot.

6 years ago

Jessica Hilburn-Holmes, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, stands near the site at 8th and Race streets in Chinatown that will be the Equal Justice Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

New $65M legal center hopes to be game changer for Philly’s poor

The Equal Justice Center will be a one-stop-shop for low-income residents to get help from Philly’s civil legal aid community.

7 years ago

Philadelphia ranks #4 on the list of most challenging places to live with asthma in the U.S. Thirteen percent of the city's children suffer from the chronic condition. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health
Broke in Philly

Why racial disparities in asthma are an urban planning issue

African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites.

7 years ago

Damilla, a One Step Away vendor (ONE STEP AWAY)
Community
Billy Penn

What’s it like to be homeless in Philly? This podcast takes you there

“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street.

7 years ago

In this May 1, 2019, file photo Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington. Powell says the United States needs to find ways to address a decades-long slowdown in income growth and upward economic mobility. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo, File)
Money

Powell: Policies needed to address slowdown in income growth

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Thursday the United States needs to find ways to address a decades-long slowdown in income growth and upward economic mobility.

7 years ago

Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
The Why
Education

Why being a first-generation college student is uniquely hard

Your parents are still the biggest indicator of how successful you'll become.

Air Date: May 6, 2019

Listen 12:32
Curio Theatre Company sells $1 tickets at the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll in June 2018. (Courtesy of Curio Theatre Co.)
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia theater companies experiment with pay-what-you-want pricing

Theater companies are reaching out to lower-income patrons with alternative ticketing models.

7 years ago

Listen 2:04
Bryan Romero has his hair cut by barber Jojo at Vibes barber shop on fifth street in the Fairhill section of Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Critiquing Kenney: For North Philly residents, everyday problems overshadow politics

The name Jim Kenney didn’t inspire much emotion around Fairhill and Strawberry Mansion. People are focused on worries that never seem to change no matter who's in City Hall.

7 years ago

Listen 9:19
Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Broke in Philly

Philly housing costs rising faster for poor and middle class than for the wealthy

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

7 years ago

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, addresses an overflow crowd outside an organizing event at McCoy's Bar Patio and Grill in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. (Nati Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Elizabeth Warren unveils $640 billion college debt forgiveness plan

The Massachusetts senator says the proposal unveiled Monday would eliminate almost all student loan debt for 42 million Americans.

7 years ago

Dee McDowell (left), who is experiencing homelessness, collects her mail from volunteer Chris Martin at Broad Street Ministry on Avenue of the Arts. (Anthony Pezzoti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Community
Broke in Philly

Mail for the homeless: A local lifeline for people off the grid

Since 2010, Broad Street Ministry has served as a kind of post office for people experiencing homelessness. Those who comes in can claim the ministry’s address as their own.

7 years ago

Arizona State Elections Director Eric Spencer, middle, helps Arizona Healthy Working Families Initiative group members deliver more than 270,000 signatures to the elections office at the Arizona Capitol, Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Phoenix, in hopes of qualifying a measure for the November ballot to raise the state's minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 and provide earned sick days to workers. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
Money
PA Post

Why and how 11 Trump states raised the minimum wage, explained

Here’s a look at the path to minimum wage increases in other reddish states.

7 years ago

Food Bank workers prepare lunch inside the industrial kitchen at the new facility in Glasgow. The kitchen will be used for training in the expanded culinary program. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

Delaware food bank opens expanded facility to help meet needs of 114,000

The Food Bank of Delaware expands ability to help more than 114,000 residents in the state who struggle with food insecurity.

7 years ago

A view of the Philadelphia skyline from the Market-Frankford elevated line in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

More inventors, more renters: Four surprising takeaways from Pew’s annual report on Philly

Pew’s ‘State of the City’ report reads like Philly’s annual physical, clocking growth, successes, and struggles over the past 10 years.

7 years ago

Page 58 of 69« First«...5657585960...»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

Latest News

  • Chester city selects Katrina Blackwell as police commissioner

    4 hours ago

  • Alina Habba, U.S. attorney for New Jersey, is stepping down

    8 hours ago

    Listen 0:38
  • Philadelphia schools celebrate Computer Science Education Week with an hour of coding

    8 hours ago

  • 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 provides trustworthy, fact-based, local news and information and world-class entertainment to everyone in our community.

WHYY offers a voice to those not heard, a platform to share everyone’s stories, a foundation to empower early and lifelong learners and a trusted space for unbiased news. Learn more about Social Responsibility at WHYY. It’s how we live.

Contact Us

Philadelphia

215.351.1200
talkback@whyy.org

Delaware

302.516.7506
talkback@whyy.org

Our Programs

  • Albie’s Elevator
  • Art Outside
  • Ask Governor Meyer
  • Billy Penn at WHYY
  • Check, Please! Philly
  • The Connection
  • The Declaration’s Journey
  • Delishtory
  • Flicks
  • Fresh Air
  • Good Souls
  • Jukebox Journey
  • Movers & Makers
  • On Stage at Curtis
  • Peak Travel
  • Philadelphia Revealed
  • PlanPhilly
  • The Pulse
  • Radio Times Rewind
  • Sports In America
  • Studio 2
  • Things To Do
  • Voices in the Family
  • WHYY News Climate Desk
  • You Oughta Know
  • Your Democracy

Inside WHYY

  • About
    • Social Responsibility at WHYY
    • Board and Executives
    • Community Advisory Board
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Employment
    • Internships
    • Press Room
    • Meet Our Newsroom
    • WHYY News Style Guide
    • WHYY Productions
    • WHYY Spaces
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Directions
    • Coverage Area
    • Financial Statements
    • WHYY Community Report
    • Supporters
    • Privacy
  • Mobile Apps
  • Meet Our Newsroom
  • Employment
  • Lifelong Learning Award
  • N.I.C.E. Initiative
  • Contact Us
  • Sponsorship
  • Directions
  • FCC Public Files
  • FCC Applications

Follow Us

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

© MMXXV WHYY

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use for WHYY.org