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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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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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Politics & Policy

Black campaign school seeks to build black political power

8 years ago

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NPR
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,
NewsWorks Tonight
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)
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

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)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

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)
Community

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

Blackstar organizers Meg Onli, Patrice Worthy, Maori Karmael Homes, Nehad Khader, and Denise Beek in front of an artwork by Jade Montserrat at the Institute for Contemporary Art. Blackstar highlights the work of black filmmakers from around the world. (Credit: Jen Kinney)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

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.
Education

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

WHYY reporter Annette John-Hall interviews Deborah Plant, editor of
Community

‘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

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”

Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...

Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:01
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 30, 2018

Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s Attorneys General try to block 3-D guns from being downloaded in their states. Shanita Hubbard discus ...

Air Date: July 30, 2018

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Black Lives Matter protestors march south on Broad Street during a protest in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

To make black lives matter, protect those lives from the womb to the tomb

We are all responsible for standing up for the sanctity of black lives. Because while so many of us are doing great work to sustain black lives, all of us have to do more.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 26, 2018

Two longtime New Jersey radio hosts are now apologizing for their racist comments about the state’s attorney general. One hundred ...

Air Date: July 26, 2018

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