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Education

Central Bucks teacher sues the district alleging retaliation over his support for LGBTQ students

The ACLU alleges the district criticized the teacher for filing a complaint to the Office of Civil Rights, at the request of a bullied trans student and his family.

2 months ago

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Courts & Law

Supreme Court says 12-year-old trans girl in West Virginia can continue on track team

The justices refused to disturb an appeals court order that made it possible for the girl to continue playing on her school’s track and cross-country teams.

2 months ago

Starlink test satellites on their way to low earth orbit.
The Pulse
Science

How satellite internet might hurdle Iranian censorship

Satellite communications are evolving quickly, proving to be a potential gateway to connect communities that remain offline.

2 months ago

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Courts & Law

Latest lawsuit against Dewey Beach police claims abusive policies made man’s 2022 shooting death ‘inevitable’

The lawsuit reiterated claims that Dewey has longstanding “policies, customs, and practices” that condone excessive force by its officers.

2 months ago

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Randall Robinson, right, is pictured with Coretta Scott King and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., after the Senate voted to override then-President Reagan's veto of tough new sanctions against South Africa in 1986. Robinson died Friday at 81.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Randall Robinson, human rights activist and lawyer, has died at 81

He died in St. Kitts of aspiration pneumonia. He was known for his advocacy against South African apartheid and for Haitian democracy.

2 months ago

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.

2 months ago

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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 months 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.

2 months 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)
Courts & Law
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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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

3 months 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.

3 months 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)
NPR
Community

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

Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments.

3 months 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.”

3 months 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.

3 months ago

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