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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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Public Safety

An architect's rendering of the proposed Anne Bryan Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. (Courtesy of PAFA)
Arts & Entertainment

PAFA to name gallery after student killed in ’13 building collapse

Anne Bryan, an art student who died in the 2013 collapse of a Salvation Army building, will have a new PAFA art gallery named after her.

8 years ago

Listen 1:24
Police gather at the scene of a fatal shooting in the center row home in Philadelphia, Monday, Nov. 19, 2018. Police say two men and two women have been found shot and killed in a basement in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Time to start lifting each other

We have to stop killing each other. 

8 years ago

Firefighters rest on a fence outside the home where Wilmington firefighters were killed in September 2016. (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)
Politics & Policy

Federal report cites litany of errors in blaze that killed 3 Wilmington firefighters

The deaths of three Wilmington firefighters in a row home blaze more than two years ago is the subject of a federal lawsuit about city ma ...

8 years ago

Listen 1:00
A firefighter searches a trailer park destroyed in the Camp Fire on Friday Paradise, Calif. (John Locher/AP)
NPR
Health

California offers safe space for firefighters to work through stress and trauma

Fighting fires has been compared to the military in another way — the stress that soldiers go through.

8 years ago

School shootings have led to a boon to the business of security technology.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NPR
Education

Inside the business of school security to stop active shooters

School shootings have taken a terrible human toll. They have also been a boon to the business of security technology.

8 years ago

Fire investigators search the debris at a home where an explosion occurred following a gas line failure in September in Lawrence, Mass. (Charles Krupa/AP)
NPR
Community

Federal investigators pinpoint what caused string of gas explosions in Mass.

At least five homes were destroyed and a person was killed. More than 20 others were injured.

8 years ago

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a student town hall at National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Education

DeVos proposes overhaul to campus sexual misconduct rules

The department will collect public input on the rules before they can be finalized.

8 years ago

An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. Fueled by high winds and low humidity, the wildfire ripped through the town, charring more than 140,000 acres and killing more than 60 people.
(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

More than 600 people now missing in California’s deadliest fire

No official cause for the fire has been identified; the blaze is currently 45 percent contained.

8 years ago

Attorney Jeff Anderson announces a suit against the Pennsylvania’s eight Catholic dioceses on behalf of victims of clergy child sexual abuse. He is joined by victim Daniel Hillanbrand and Hillanbrand’s wife, Donna. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

New lawsuit against Pa. Catholic dioceses demands more secrets be revealed

Two people who have accused priests of molestation in Philadelphia have filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and ...

8 years ago

Listen 1:22
A rally took place at Point State Park Friday, November 9, 2018, to honor the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. (Virginia Alvino Young/WESA)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Should the accused Tree of Life shooter be executed? It depends on who you ask

The Tree of Life shooting, which left 11 Jewish worshippe ...

8 years ago

Listen 4:51
The walls of a scorched antique shop stand on Skyway after a wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Community

Fire death toll at 56 and counting in Northern California

At least 56 people were killed, with 130 others missing.

8 years ago

Ted Kelly of the Workers World Party (right) leads a protest against the We The People rally planned for Saturday on Independence Mall.
Politics & Policy

Proud Boys? Maybe. Counterprotesters? Definitely. What we know ahead of Saturday’s ‘We the People’ rally

Area anti-fascist demonstrators claim the event will bring violent white supremacists to Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Listen 1:05
National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
Community

Hearing reveals chilling details of fatal Southwest flight

The harrowing details from the April fatal flight were released for the first time as the National Transportation Safety Board began a hearing Wednesday.

8 years ago

Beth Lyon is the pastor of Glenside United Church of Christ. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

As hate crimes increase, faith leaders come to Philly security summit

For the third straight year, hate crimes are happening more frequently.  They increased by about 17 percent in 2017, according to U.S au ...

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Guests: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Judy Melinek Today, we meet writer ...

Air Date: November 14, 2018 10:00 am

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