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Politics & Policy

The 25th Amendment; Cole Brown and finding Blackness in a white world

Author Cole Brown joins to discuss Blackness and his experience being tokenized in his wealthy, predominantly white upbringing.

Air Date: October 13, 2020

Listen 49:45
Jeannine Cook (right) owner of Harriett's Bookshop in Fishtown, and her sister Jasmaine Cook, lead a procession on East Girard Avenue
Community

Black-owned Philly bookstore creates civic intervention as Afrofuturist theater

In the face of a racist attack, the Black-owned bookstore turned to Afrofuturism to spark a public intervention.

6 years ago

Listen 1:41
Pennsylvania Lt/ Gov. John Fetterman and his wife Gisele Barreto Fetterman walk to Gov. Tom Wolf's inauguration
Community
Billy Penn

‘The first time it was to my face’: Gisele Fetterman talks about racist attack at Aldi

6 years ago

United States flags blow in the wind in Malibu, CA
NPR
Politics & Policy

We asked Americans how they feel about the US flag. It got interesting.

There is a lot of love for the Stars and Stripes, but some people say the flag's meaning has changed in ways that make them uncomfortable.

6 years ago

East Passyunk's current logo is seen on a utility hole cover
Community
Billy Penn

East Passyunk to redesign neighborhood logo, replacing stereotype of Indigenous person

The offensive image lacks historical accuracy.

6 years ago

Carmen Guerrero dances with Kapulli Kamaxtle Xiuhcoatl
Community

Ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, activists in Philly suburbs call for more than marching

After a summer of protests, a group of racial justice activists in Montgomery County is pushing for changes to school curricula, among other demands.

6 years ago

Mellody Hobson, right, walks with film director George Lucas after the qualifying session at the Monaco racetrack in Monaco, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Education

Princeton names dorm for Black alum Hobson, replacing Wilson

Hobson is the co-CEO of Ariel Investments and gave an undisclosed seed donation to fund the reconstruction of the dorm, along with the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

6 years ago

Former officer Eric Ruch and Dennis Plowden (NBC10)
Courts & Law

Former Philly police officer charged with murder for fatally shooting unarmed Black man

Former police Officer Eric Ruch, Jr. is being held without bail after turning himself in Friday morning. He was fired in 2018.

6 years ago

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

Listen 49:31
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

Listen 18:19
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

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