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Courts & Law

‘Very frightening’: Opposition grows to U.S. agents in cities

The Trump administration is facing growing pushback — in the courts and on the streets — to sending federal agents to Portland, Oregon.

6 years ago

Trader Joe's says it is in the process of discontinuing some of its product branding. Here, shoppers buy groceries at a store last week in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
NPR
Community

Trader Joe’s working to remove product branding criticized as racist

The grocery store chain has carried product lines such as Trader José's and Trader Ming’s. Critics say the branding employs racial stereotypes.

6 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Does the President have authority to send troops to U.S. cities not asking for aid?

President Trump sent federal law enforcement to Portland to respond to racial justice protests and is now threatening to send troops to U.S. cities who are not asking for aid.

Air Date: July 22, 2020 10:00 am

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Members of the 32BJ union participate in a
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Community

Essential workers hold walkouts and protests in national ‘Strike for Black Lives’

Front-line workers in several U.S. cities walked off their jobs and took to the streets to demand racial and economic justice.

6 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Delaware Art Museum revives ‘Black Survival Guide’ exhibit

Originally commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the National Guard occupation of Wilmington, the exhibit has new relevance in 2020.

6 years ago

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is seen on July 14. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Presidential nominees rarely speak to Muslim audiences. Biden did Monday

Biden focused on Islamophobia, Trump, the need for both Palestinians and Israelis to have a state of their own, and the contributions of Muslims in fighting coronavirus.

6 years ago

A ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. The mural honors Taylor, a 26-year old Black woman who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. The artwork was a team effort by the Banneker-Douglass Museum, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, and Future History Now, a youth organization that focuses on mural projects. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Eyes on the Street

Breonna Taylor’s death reveals link between urban development and racist policing

Lawyers for Breonna Taylor’s family have tied her murder by police to a West Louisville revitalization plan. The allegations resonate in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

John Lewis looks over a section of 16th Street that's been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza
Community

How the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis

“He didn’t have to stand with us, he chose to," said Malkia Devich Cyril, the founder and senior fellow of MediaJustice. "That’s real leadership.”

6 years ago

Protesters rally against street sign named after former Philadelphia Mayor Goode
Community

Protesters press city to remove street sign for former Philly Mayor Goode, citing MOVE bombing

About 30 protesters rallied to take down what they called “a monument to state violence.” W. Wilson Goode Sr. was mayor during the 1985 MOVE bombing.

6 years ago

A masked woman walks past a mural of former President  Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday July 18, 2020 as the country celebrates International Mandela Day. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
Politics & Policy

UN chief: World ‘at the breaking point’ due to inequalities

“It is exposing fallacies and falsehoods everywhere: The lie that free markets can deliver health care for all, the fiction that unpaid care work is not work."

6 years ago

Wyoming Street in Hazelton, Pa. was once nearly vacant but since a wave of immigration, almost 90% of storefronts are filled. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania is becoming more racially diverse. And that could be a big deal for the 2020 election.

Trump’s victory in 2016 was predicated on unusually high turnout among certain white voters. But that demographic is shrinking in Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

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Kids on bicycles in Cincinnati. (Ahshea1 Media/Pexels)
Community

Elijah McClain and the invisibility of ‘different’ Black and brown boys

I challenge all of us to see, understand, and appreciate the uniqueness and individual qualities of different Black and brown boys, writes Whiquitta Tobar.

6 years ago

A white van that says
Courts & Law
NBC10

Allentown officers seen on video in controversial detention won’t face charges

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said the restraint was "reasonable."

6 years ago

Zaire Cuspud helped lead a worker protest at a pair of Chick-fil-A franchises in Delaware County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Fast food fight: The story of a protest you never saw, and the Black employees who made it happen

The George Floyd protests are changing workplace culture — even workplaces that get little attention. The story of a suburban Chick-fil-A shows how.

6 years ago

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PlayPenn artistic director Paul Meshejian
Arts & Entertainment

Theater artists speak out against PlayPenn leadership

An organization that helps playwrights develop new work has come under fire with accusations of racism and sexual harassment.

6 years ago

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