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Race & Ethnicity

Mourners gather around a makeshift memorial, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis, near where an black man was taken into police custody the day before who later died. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Community

Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of Black man

The death Monday night after a struggle with officers was under investigation by the FBI and state law enforcement authorities.

6 years ago

Video shows Amy Cooper threatening to call the police on Christian Cooper
Community

Woman fired after backlash from racist Central Park confrontation

“Unfortunately we live in an era...where black men are seen as targets," Christian Cooper said. "This woman thought she could exploit that to her advantage."

6 years ago

Artist Theo Ponchaveli paints a mural of the likeness of Ahmaud Arbery in Dallas, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Courts & Law

Man who filmed Arbery shooting video charged in his slaying

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 50-year-old William “Roddie” Bryan was arrested on charges of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.

6 years ago

In this May, 1985 file photo, scores of rowhouses burn in a fire in the west Philadelphia neighborhood. Police dropped a bomb on the militant group MOVE's home on May 13, 1985 in an attempt to arrest members, leading to the burning of scores of homes in the neighborhood. (AP Photo, File)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Could forgiveness follow apology 35 years after the MOVE bombing?

Some leaders are pushing for Philly to formally apologize for the MOVE bombing 35 years ago. It that were to happen, what would an apology — and forgiveness — look like?

Air Date: May 21, 2020

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Arts & Entertainment
Broke in Philly

“It kills us.” Philly’s Latinx artists cope with lost incomes and voices amid arts and culture cuts

Mayor Jim Kenney’s revised COVID-19 budget gutted the city’s funding to arts and culture and did away with the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

6 years ago

A Black doctor performs a free COVID-19 test in the parking lot of the West Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church. (Christopher Norris for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Health

Racial disparity grows as the coronavirus disproportionately claims Black lives in Pa., Jersey and Delaware

Doctors say that information about the virus’ community-specific impacts will only become more critical as the economy reopens.

6 years ago

IF Lab cofounders Tayyib Smith and Meegan Denenberg (Facebook / Little Giant Creative)
Community
Billy Penn

Entrepreneurs of color from around the nation connect at IF Lab’s first virtual symposium

The new speaker series is based in Philly, but has a much wider reach.

6 years ago

Guatemalans deported from the U.S., wave from a bus.
Politics & Policy

Trump ramps up expulsions of migrant youth, citing virus

U.S. border agencies quickly expelled 600 child migrants in April after federal agencies began prohibiting asylum claims at the southern border, citing the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Screenshot of an MBK Cares virtual session
Health
Billy Penn

Online mental health sessions for Black men in Philly are a hit during the pandemic

MBK Cares has reached more than 1,000 people during quarantine.

6 years ago

Officials inspect the demolished MOVE headquarters after the bombing in 1985.
Community
Billy Penn

At least 8 Philly councilmembers support a formal MOVE bombing apology

“Apology without action is meaningless,” a MOVE family member responds.

6 years ago

Spanish Flu
Health

A brief history of pandemics in Philly and the myth of race-based immunity

The misbelief that Blacks are immune to pandemics isn’t novel. Its history goes as far back as 1793.

6 years ago

Demonstrators protest the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery
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Courts & Law

Georgia attorney general asks for DOJ probe into handling of Ahmaud Arbery case

Arbery’s death sparked a national outcry and demands for justice after a cellphone video of the shooting began circulating online last week.

6 years ago

This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith)
Community

US census stirs uncertainty for those displaced by virus

The pandemic has fostered sudden, unexpected dislocation, making a typically easy question confusing for the newly displaced.

6 years ago

Millions of jobs have evaporated, particularly from businesses that employ a large number of Hispanics -- like hotels, restaurants, bars, building services. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Why a historic wave of Latino prosperity is under threat now

A few months ago, things were looking up for Latinos. Wages were rising and unemployment had hit a record low. Now, that historic wave of prosperity appears to be at risk.

6 years ago

A memorial at the spot where Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Ga.
Community

Ahmaud Arbery’s death raises echoes of US racial terror legacy

It took more than two months for Arbery's pursuers — who told police they suspected he was a burglar — to be arrested and taken into custody.

6 years ago

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