Race & Ethnicity
The Impact of Police Violence on Health
The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis has sparked another wave of national outrage over police brutality and viol ...
Air Date: June 5, 2020
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Race, ethnicity data to be required with coronavirus tests in U.S.
The federal government says that as of Aug. 1, laboratories must include detailed demographic data when reporting test results in order to help fight the pandemic nationally.
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The future of small businesses as the country reopens
How are businesses going to navigate reopening during a health pandemic and national civic unrest?
Air Date: June 5, 2020 10:00 am
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Hundreds rally in Montco to demand Commissioner Joe Gale’s resignation
In social media posts earlier this week, the Republican official referred to Black Lives Matter as a radical left-wing hate group.
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Police allowed Fishtown mob to threaten neighbors who want answers
A group of white men carrying baseball bats assaulted at least three people in Fishtown. Why did police allow them to assemble past curfew while telling protesters go home?
Air Date: June 4, 2020
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8:46: A number becomes a potent symbol of police brutality
The time span is how long prosecutors say George Floyd was pinned to the ground under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee before he died.
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Billy Penn
New Philly committee will examine systemic racism and root causes of poverty, mayor vows
Members include youth, clergy and other community leaders.
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‘We can do better’ on diversity, says University of Delaware president
UDel President Dennis Assanis says all students will have to take mandatory training as part of an effort to improve diversity and inclusion at the state’s largest university.
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Inquirer journalists of color refuse to work Thursday, demand newsroom changes
A headline suggested equivalence between property destruction and violence against Black Americans. But staffers’ protest is about more than the headline.
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Billy Penn
Philly’s Black drag queens pay it forward with show supporting Black Lives Matter
Performers say it’s still important to celebrate Pride.
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Prosecutors describe racist slur as Ahmaud Arbery lay dying
Agent Richard Dial said the driver of the second pickup truck, William “Roddie” Bryan, said he heard the gunman say a racist epithet as he stood over Arbery's body.
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Billy Penn
Focus on scalable growth, access to capital and pardon reform — and listen to Black Philadelphians
We need a vaccine for the racial pandemic.
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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises
President Obama held a virtual town hall event with young people to discuss policing and the civil unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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The nonprofit’s announcement came on the heels of the removal of another controversial Rizzo landmark: the 10-foot-tall bronze statue outside the Municipal Services Building.
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Murder charge upgraded in Floyd case, 3 other cops charged
The three other police officers on the scene when a Minneapolis officer pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder.
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