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Race & Ethnicity

Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala. She testified:
NPR
Community

Meet the fearless cook who secretly fed — and funded — the civil rights movement

Georgia Gilmore used the profits from selling her food to others in the movement to help pay for alternative transportation in Montgomery during the 381-day bus boycot.

8 years ago

The Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson with Coretta Scott King and Bishop Walker. (Courtesy Rev. Casson)
First
Community

Vowing to uphold MLK’s mission

Some called Martin Luther King Jr. a visionary. Others called him a troublemaker. For Wilmington minister Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson, he was an inspiration.

8 years ago

Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly after childbirth.
NPR
Health

Making the case that discrimination is bad for your health

Arline Geronimus coined the term 'weathering' to describe how health problems of marginalized people can be caused by stresses of their daily life.

8 years ago

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures and shouts to his congregation in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. on April 30, 1967 as he urges America to repent and abandon what he called its
Politics & Policy

Leaders say Trump presidency is at odds with MLK’s legacy

The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump's presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump's own making.

8 years ago

Asaf Barrios, 11, jams out on his steele drum accompanied by his father, Raul, at APM's Three Kings Day/Octavious celebration for displaced families from Puerto Rico in North Philadelphia on January 12 2018. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Community

Three Kings and Octavitas bring a taste of home for Puerto Ricans starting over in Philly

Three Kings Day and Octavitas are two post-Christmas holiday celebrations important in Latin America. For recent arrivals from Puerto Ric ...

8 years ago

United States Circa 1900: Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York. (Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

President Trump’s idea of good and bad immigrant countries has a historical precedent

From 1924 to 1965, the United States allocated immigrant visas on the basis of a candidate's national origin.

8 years ago

Dion Diamond listens with his eyes closed to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, at a
NPR
Community

The civil rights activist whose name you’ve probably never heard

Dion Diamond was sitting at a "whites-only" lunch counter in Arlington, Va., in 1960 when a crowd started gathering around him.

8 years ago

Maya Dena Hairston
Speak Easy
Community

This is why King’s life, legacy, and hope still matter

Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental in moving us forward, but much work remains to be done. I am hopeful for the future, because I believe there is more good than bad.

8 years ago

Charles Howard is shown in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Speak Easy
Community

Continuing King’s fight, with love in the age of hate

This year, we as a nation should not celebrate King Day. It’s not that Dr. King does not deserve this national holiday. It is America that does not deserve to celebrate him.

8 years ago

Christine Riddick, mother of Eric Riddick, (left) his wife Dana Baker-Riddick, (center) and Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif protest outside the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in an attempt to deliver information they say will prove the innocence of Eric Riddick, who’s been incarcerated for 26 years. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Black Lives Matter, family press Philly DA to release inmate they say is innocent

Eric Riddicks' mother says he wasn't the killer in a 1991 homicide. She delivered the paperwork she says proves his innocence to new top prosecutor, Larry Krasner.

8 years ago

The late Recy Taylor shown in her home in Winter Haven, Fl., in 2010 (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Community

Recy Taylor’s courage after 1944 rape bolsters others

Taylor was a 24-year-old married mother with a three-year-old daughter in 1944.

8 years ago

(PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Most Philadelphia neighborhoods still haven’t recovered from the recession

Despite a recent building boom, Philadelphia’s housing market has not recovered from the Great Recession, especially outside Center City.

8 years ago

Art Dorrington, former Sea Gull, hoists the Kelly Cup after the Boardwalk Bullies won game 5 of the East Coast Hockey League's championship series at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on May 14, 2003.
Community

Art Dorrington, who broke color barrier in pro hockey, dead at 87

A Nova Scotia native, Dorrington made Atlantic City his home for decades, becoming a familiar figure everywhere from the municipal buildings to the athletic facilities.

8 years ago

Lee Saunders is the national president of AFSCME. (AFSCME)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Community

Lee Saunders to give address at MLK event

Lee Saunders is the president of AFSCME, AFL-CIO, which represents 1.6 million members. African American to serve as AFSCME’s president.

8 years ago

The 12th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, Brooklyn NY 2016
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

An ode to Combat Jack and his preservation of hip hop culture

Hip hop runs through my veins, and I am a shameless podcast nerd, so my heart was broken when I heard about the recent passing of Reggie ...

8 years ago

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