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Courtney Bowles explains how the People's Paper Co-op invites people who recently had their criminal records expunged to turn their old records into pulp, which is then made into new paper on which to write their future lives. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly project for art and criminal justice to receive international award

For almost 10 years, the People’s Paper Co-op has used art to help women get out of jail, and to get people’s criminal records expunged.

7 hours ago

Lemuel Bannister estimates the height of the flooding caused by Isaias in 2020
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Eastwick United launches grant program to fill another gap in Isaias recovery

More than two years after a flood devastated low-lying Eastwick, a community organization is distributing funding for lingering repairs.

2 days ago

Caroline Ouko, mother of Irvo Otieno, holds a portrait of her son with attorney Ben Crump, left, and her older son, Leon Ochieng at the Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. She said Otieno, who died in a state mental hospital March 6, was “brilliant and creative and bright.”  (Daniel Sangjib Min/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
Courts & Law

Video shows sheriff’s deputies and hospital workers pinned Irvo Otieno to floor before his death

A newly released video shows that Virginia mental hospital workers and sheriff's deputies pinned Irvo Otieno to the ground until he was motionless and limp.

4 days ago

Police deploy tear gas to disperse a crowd during a protest Sunday, May 31, 2020, in Philadelphia over the death of George Floyd. Floyd died May 25 after he was pinned at the neck by a Minneapolis police officer. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Billy Penn

Protesters win $9 million settlement and police demilitarization pledge for 2020 tear-gassing in West Philadelphia

The city's agreement with the group of 20 activists and residents also includes a half-million award to the Bread & Roses Community Fund.

5 days ago

Rabbi Arthur Waskow wrote the original Freedom Seder in 1969, long before he became a rabbi
Arts & Entertainment

Weitzman museum to host 10th annual Freedom Seder

The Freedom Seder, conceived 54 years ago, ties Jewish religious teaching with social activism.

5 days ago

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Protesters rally outside the Paterson Police Department on March 10 over the killing of Najee Seabrooks.
Courts & Law

Bodycam footage shows Najee Seabrooks’ deadly encounter with Paterson Police, questions remain

With guns drawn, police are seen negotiating with Seabrooks. At times the 31-year-old Black man can be heard both complying and threatening to harm himself and officers.

1 week ago

A police car on 56th Street in West Philadelphia.
Courts & Law

As Philly mayoral candidates debate public safety strategies, activists are raising the alarm on stop and frisk

The ACLU of Pennsylvania has a new policy paper about the history of the practice.

1 week ago

A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the indigenous communities that originally inhabited the event space. Above is a detail of a Tribal Nations Map by Aaron Carapella. Read more about Carapella's mapping project. (Aaron Carapella/Tribal Nations Map)
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Community

So you began your event with an indigenous land acknowledgement. Now what?

Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments.

1 week ago

Abortion-rights activists setup an abortion pills educational booth as they protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, July 4, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Courts & Law

Abortion pill access case: Judge wants ‘less advertisement’

Because the case has prompted death threats and protests, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said “less advertisement of this hearing is better.”

2 weeks ago

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NPR
Money

It’s Equal Pay Day. The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives?

Tuesday is Equal Pay Day: March 14th represents how far into the year women have had to work to catch up to what their male colleagues earned the previous year.

2 weeks ago

BLM Paterson Leader Zellie Thomas speaks to the crowd on Fri, March 10, 2023. (Tennyson Donyéa/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Najee Seabrooks’ family demands police release bodycam footage of shooting that killed man in mental distress

Community members in Paterson have called for police to suspend the involved officers without pay, effective immediately.

2 weeks ago

Sybrina Fulton, Loretta Prater, and a moderator sit onstage.
Community

Trayvon Martin’s mother speaks at Univ. of Delaware’s ‘Black Mothers and Police Violence’ forum

The mothers of Trayvon Martin and Leslie Prater spoke about grief, police brutality, and how to make change during a forum at the University of Delaware.

2 weeks ago

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Protesters march, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Authorities pleaded for calm while activists vowed to fight on Thursday in Kentucky’s largest city, where a gunman wounded two police officers during anguished protests following the decision not to charge officers for killing Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Courts & Law

DOJ says Louisville police had pattern of violating rights

The report said Louisville Police “discriminate against Black people in its enforcement activities,” uses excessive force and conducts searches based on invalid warrants.

2 weeks ago

Texas abortion rights supporters march near the Austin Convention Center in May of 2022. A new lawsuit filed in state court asks a judge to clarify medical exemptions in the state's abortion bans. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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Courts & Law

Texas women sue their state, saying abortion bans put them in danger

Five women who were denied abortions under Texas law while facing medical crises are suing the state, asking a judge to clarify exceptions to the laws.

3 weeks ago

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Courts & Law

Ex-Wilmington cop shot two suspects in a four-year period. Now he’s a convicted felon for lying to police

MacColl’s conviction stems from statements to supervisors after shooting a teen suspect in an armed carjacking. He faces up to three years behind bars.

3 weeks ago

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