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Nolan Williams Jr. is the curator of the Philadelphia Community Mass. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Four African-American composers go to church with Bernstein’s ‘Mass’

A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein.

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Imagined opposition

Guests: Perry Bacon Jr. American’s political affiliations are generally a good indicator of how people vote but ...

Air Date: August 10, 2018 10:00 am

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The long road to becoming Pa.’s first black-owned brewery

This weekend, Pittsburgh is slated to host the first festival of black craft beer brewers from around the country.

8 years ago

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Amplifying voices of color

Guests: Michelle Saahene, Melissa DePino MICHELLE S ...

Air Date: August 9, 2018 10:00 am

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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal speaks during a news conference. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Politics & Policy

Radio hosts suspended for slur against Sikh AG return to air

The hosts of a popular New Jersey radio show suspended for calling the nation's first Sikh attorney general "turban man" are back on the air.

8 years ago

Jessica Byrd, the founder of Three Point Strategies, leads a session on stump speeches at the second annual Black Campaign School in Atlanta, Ga.
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Black campaign school seeks to build black political power

8 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Majority of black Americans value social media for amplifying lesser-known issues

A new Pew study found that 8 in 10 black Americans value the platforms for magnifying issues that aren't usually discussed.

8 years ago

Doreen Garner and Terence Nance host a segment of Nance's new HBO show,
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Arts & Entertainment

New HBO series debuts at Blackstar Film Festival in Philly

Terence Nance, a New York experimental filmmaker with a long history with the Blackstar Film Festival in Philadelphia, chose the festival to launch his new HBO series.

8 years ago

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People of Japanese ancestry arrive at the assembly center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, Calif., in 1942 for internment. (National Archives and Records Administration)
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Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history

It comes after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry on a hotel guest’s room folio last week.

8 years ago

In June, details were announced for a renovation memorializing the Bethel AME burial ground under Weccacoe Playground. (PlanPhilly/file)
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Young boys admit to hanging doll at Weccacoe Playground

Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at a South Philly playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground.

8 years ago

Community

Ruth Naomi Floyd, ‘Frederick Douglass Jazz Works,’ and our need for free critical artists

Floyd could have been this generation’s Ella or Mahalia. But she has taken the A Train on a track less traveled — and Douglass is her latest companion on that journey.

8 years ago

Halal food cart in New York. (Tupungato)
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For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of ‘halal’

While conducting research for our book, “Halal Food: A History,” we found that more and more Muslims are looking at ethical and health considerations

8 years ago

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Blackstar Film Festival, in its seventh year, keeps expanding the mainstream

The festival showcases films that may be difficult to find in mainstream theaters.

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announces the formation of the Institute for the Contemporary African American Experience at Cheyney University. He is joined by (from left) Cheyney University President Aaron Walton and Charles S. Smith, Chairman of the Epcot Crenshaw Corporation, a partner in the Institute.
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Cheyney University launches two institutes as part of school’s reinvention

After facing several years of falling enrollment and financial instability, Cheyney University is looking to remake itself by playing to its strengths.

8 years ago

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‘Barracoon’ spurs a long-overdue conversation about last known slave-ship survivor

"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.

8 years ago

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