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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.
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A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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Isabel poses with a figure of the Virgen de Guadalupe (Virgin Mary). Mexican Catholics are fervently devoted to the Virgen de Guadalupe and celebrate her birthday every December 12th. | Isabel posa con una figura de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Virgen María). Los católicos mexicanos están fervientemente devotos de la Virgen de Guadalupe y celebran su cumpleaños cada 12 de diciembre. (Photo by Eugenio Salas for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Bilingual version

From Virgen of Guadalupe to San Miguel Arcángel, this Mexican entrepreneur sells saints for all

San Miguel Arcángel keeps South Philadelphia prepared for ritual and protected from danger.

6 years ago

Listen 5:42
Isabel poses with a figure of the Virgen de Guadalupe (Virgin Mary). Mexican Catholics are fervently devoted to the Virgen de Guadalupe and celebrate her birthday every December 12th. | Isabel posa con una figura de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Virgen María). Los católicos mexicanos están fervientemente devotos de la Virgen de Guadalupe y celebran su cumpleaños cada 12 de diciembre. (Photo by Eugenio Salas for WHYY)
Community
Version en Español

No es tan sólo una tienda, es La Emperatriz de América

La tienda San Miguel Arcángel mantiene el sur de Filadelfia listo para los ceremoniales y protegido del peligro.

6 years ago

Listen 4:49
Isabel poses with a figure of the Virgen de Guadalupe (Virgin Mary). Mexican Catholics are fervently devoted to the Virgen de Guadalupe and celebrate her birthday every December 12th. | Isabel posa con una figura de la Virgen de Guadalupe (Virgen María). Los católicos mexicanos están fervientemente devotos de la Virgen de Guadalupe y celebran su cumpleaños cada 12 de diciembre. (Photo by Eugenio Salas for WHYY)
Community
English version

From Virgen of Guadalupe to San Miguel Arcángel, this Mexican entrepreneur sells saints for all

San Miguel Arcángel keeps South Philadelphia prepared for ritual and protected from danger.

6 years ago

Listen 4:49
Rendering produced by RevitGods of the existing second-floor space of the former Philadelphia Inquirer Building. Now the Philadelphia Public Services Building. (Courtesy of RevitGods Inc.)
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Eyes on the Street

Philadelphia’s architecture industry needs to fix its diversity problems

RevitGods, Inc. CEO Uchenna Okere shares his personal experience in the architecture industry and how the field can bring in more women and people of color.

6 years ago

Dr. Guy A. Sims stands in front of some greenery
Community
Billy Penn

Free Library’s first-ever diversity officer is co-author of the famed ‘Brotherman’ comics

Dr. Guy A. Sims is a Philly native and Germantown High grad. His appointment follows staff organizing to fight discrimination at the institution.

6 years ago

A sign at the entrance to a park warns pedestrians about increased risk for the coronavirus in the Ironbound section of Newark
Community

N.J. coronavirus update: Murphy says scenario will improve if people take precautions

In sharing modeling used to follow the virus, the governor said a moderate-case scenario can be achieved by mask-wearing, distancing, 'using common sense.'

6 years ago

Philly Boricuas’s mission is to give voice to Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community and amplify the voices of their families on the island. | La misión de Philly Boricuas es dar voz a la comunidad puertorriqueña de Filadelfia y amplificar las voces de sus familias en la isla. (Photo by Eugenio Salas/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Bilingual Version

How a young Boricua activista is building political power en Filadelfia

Philly Boricuas is a young organization seeking to build more power for Philadelphia’s growing Puerto Rican community.

6 years ago

Listen 5:11
Philly Boricuas’s mission is to give voice to Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community and amplify the voices of their families on the island. | La misión de Philly Boricuas es dar voz a la comunidad puertorriqueña de Filadelfia y amplificar las voces de sus familias en la isla. (Photo by Eugenio Salas/WHYY)
Community
Version en Español

Cómo una joven activista puertorriqueña promueve el empoderamiento político en Filadelfia

Philly Boricuas es una organización joven que busca empoderar a la creciente comunidad puertorriqueña de Filadelfia.

6 years ago

Listen 4:26
Philly Boricuas’s mission is to give voice to Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community and amplify the voices of their families on the island. | La misión de Philly Boricuas es dar voz a la comunidad puertorriqueña de Filadelfia y amplificar las voces de sus familias en la isla. (Photo by Eugenio Salas/WHYY)
Community
English Version

How a young Puerto Rican activist is building political power in Philadelphia

Philly Boricuas is a young organization seeking to build more power for Philadelphia’s growing Puerto Rican community.

6 years ago

Listen 4:26
Obed Arango is originally from Mexico and has lived in Montgomery County for 15 years. He is the founder and executive director of the Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educación, which serves the large and growing Spanish-speaking community in Norristown. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Tracing Montco’s decades-long shift from GOP stronghold to boon for Biden

Two big reasons stand out: Republicans lost many of their moderate voters here as the GOP crept rightward, and suburbs have further diversified.

6 years ago

Police stop traffic on Broad Street
The Why
Courts & Law

A decade after lawsuit, Philly is still stopping and frisking

Ten years after it was sued for racial bias, the city still employs the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk. Mayor Jim Kenney says he wants it to end. Will it?

Air Date: December 8, 2020

Listen 14:45
Mary De La Rosa stands inside a geodesic play structure at her home back yard
Community

Coronavirus takes toll on Black, Latino child care providers

The pandemic’s effects have rippled through child care, disproportionately affecting Black and Latino-owned centers in an industry that has long relied on providers of color.

6 years ago

Richard Allen
Community

New focus for ‘Delaware Day’ holiday tells history of enslaved people

Instead of celebrating Delaware’s five founding fathers who signed the Constitution, this year’s focus shifts to four enslaved Black Delawareans and an abolitionist.

6 years ago

Princess Rahman (left) and Hajjah Glover finish installing a raised garden bed in Southwest Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
Broke in Philly

Community garden fosters African farming traditions in Southwest Philadelphia

The urban agriculture project Sankofa builds community by giving neighbors the tools and knowledge to grow their own food.

6 years ago

Listen 2:11
Irving Robles y su Cuatro Son (Taller Puertorriqueño)
Community

Christmas assault? Maybe next year. Taller Puertorriqueño to host pandemic parranda online

Taller Puertorriqueño in North Philadelphia wraps holiday party/birthday celebration/fundraiser into one Zoom bash.

6 years ago

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