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Sisters Shelly Smith, back, and Glynnis Smith, right, braid hair for Bridget Dunmore, left, and Alicia McGee, front at their salon, Braid Heaven, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 in Kansas City, Kan. Legislators are considering whether to revise their states' anti-discrimination laws to ban bias in housing, employment and public accommodations based on hairstyles. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Ending hair discrimination

We discuss hair discrimination and the CROWN Act, which passed recently in the U.S. House and would ban discrimination based on hairstyles.

Air Date: October 9, 2020 10:00 am

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A National Lawyers Guild, Legal Observer who was arrested observing a protest is searched by police and put into a van which transferred her to the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis, United States on October 08, 2020. Protesters took to the streets over former Officer Derek Chauvin being released after posting 1 million USD bail. Derek was the officer known for his involvement in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. (Photo by Chris Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

51 arrested in Minneapolis protests following Derek Chauvin’s release

Protesters gathered outside of the Minneapolis 5th Police Precinct in Minneapolis on Wednesday following the release of former police officer Derek Chauvin.

6 years ago

People gather at the site where George Floyd was killed while in police custody not to just to protest, but to see comfort in each other.
Courts & Law

Ex-cop charged in Floyd’s death freed on $1 million bond

According to court documents, Derek Chauvin posted $1 million bond.

6 years ago

Dr. Chris Pernell (right) is shown in a family photo with her father, a scientist who died of COVID-19, and her sister-in-law. (Provided by Chris Pernell)
The Why
Health

Enrolling in COVID-19 vaccine trial as a Black doctor

"My dad would frequently say to me, follow the data, follow the science." N.J. doctor Chris Pernell on why she enrolled in a COVID-19 vaccine trial.

Air Date: October 5, 2020

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Christy DeGallerie poses for a portrait Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in Dallas. DeGallerie noticed a startling trend in her online group for coronavirus survivors: White patients got medications she’d never heard of, were offered X-rays and said their doctors listened to their concerns. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Health

Cities declare racism a health crisis, but some doubt impact

“We know our pain is questioned and our pain is not real to them,” said Christy DeGallerie, who later started a group for Black COVID-19 survivors.

6 years ago

Twitter said it will make changes to how preview images are cropped amid concerns about possible bias. Some Twitter users posted images the site's algorithm selected white faces over Black ones in preview images. (Richard Drew/AP)
NPR
Community

Twitter announces changes to image cropping amid bias concern

Twitter is making changes to how preview photos are cropped after users raised concerns that the site's algorithm was showing preferences for white faces over Black ones.

6 years ago

Museum of the American Revolution's
Arts & Entertainment

‘When Women Lost the Vote’: Philly museum tells the forgotten stories of Revolutionary N.J.

The Museum of the American Revolution’s new exhibit, “When Women Lost the Vote,” explores when women and free people of color were legally entitled to vote in New Jersey.

6 years ago

Passerby walks between the camera and the Proud Boys as they pose for a photo. (Courtesy of Jason Peters)
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Stand back, Proud Boys. Philadelphia is stronger than you.

Philadelphia sent its own powerful message of joyful unity and powerful protest to the far-right fascist group last month.

6 years ago

Jamil Rivers, an advocate living with metastatic breast cancer, has spearheaded a virtual educational program offered by Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a national nonprofit organization. (Abdul R. Sulayman / The Philadelphia Tribune)
Health
The Philadelphia Tribune

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: New virtual program addresses racial disparities

Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) has rolled out a virtual online series designed to address racial health disparities.

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Council convenes on Thursday via video chat. (Screenshot)
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Tribune

Councilmember wants to remove Wells Fargo name from arena over bank CEO’s racially insensitive comments

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf blamed the lack of diversity at the nation’s third-largest bank on “a very limited pool of Black talent to recruit from” in corporate America.

6 years ago

VietLead, a local social justice nonprofit, was one of the recipients of the Asian Mosaic Fund's crowdsourced grants. (ASIAN MOSAIC FUND / FACEBOOK)
Community
Billy Penn

Asian American nonprofits get low share of Philly’s COVID relief grants, so mutual aid orgs step in

The Asian Mosaic Fund’s giving circle has raised $40k.

6 years ago

President Trump participates in the first presidential debate
Politics & Policy

Trump Proud Boys remark echoes Charlottesville

The moment was far from the first time that President Trump has failed to denounce white supremacists or has promoted racist ideas.

6 years ago

André Robert Lee, director and producer of
Arts & Entertainment

How my time at an elite Philly private school inspired my film about isolation

Filmmaker André Robert Lee, the brainchild behind “The Prep School Negro,” writes about isolation, racism and identity.

6 years ago

Video footage from the night of a shooting in Bedford County does not support state police accounts that a confrontation preceded shots being fired at a group of civil rights marchers.
Community
Spotlight PA

A changing story by police on a rural Pa. shooting helped fuel white vigilantes and misinformation

Footage from the night of a shooting in Bedford Co. does not support state police accounts that a confrontation preceded shots being fired at a group of civil rights marchers.

6 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden
Politics & Policy

Biden’s Delaware State comments taken out of context, DSU official says

A Washington paper made it sound like Biden was lying about his connection to the HBCU by taking his words out of context.

6 years ago

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