
Social Justice
Tent encampment on the Parkway for affordable housing; City help for looted businesses
Roughly 30 tents have been set up on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway beneath a large sign reading, “HOUSING NOW!”
5 years ago
Protesters demand action and Delaware politicians jump to enact policing reforms
Demonstrators in Wilmington and across the state have made their demands clear. A slate of bills in the General Assembly aims to meet them and more.
5 years ago
Listen 1:57More than 1,000 Philly artists, art administrators call for defunding the police department
In an open letter to Mayor Jim Kenney and City Council, artists and arts organizations called on the city to redistribute police funding to human services.
5 years ago
Eyes blistering, crawling on highway: What it felt like to be tear gassed on 676
Fifteen people describe their violent encounter with police while protesting police brutality in Philadelphia.
5 years ago
Physicists are off the job as they ‘Strike for Black Lives’
Black astronomers, cosmologists and physicists organized the worldwide strike as a day to stop doing science and start addressing racism within academia.
5 years ago
N.J. said all state troopers would have body cameras by mid-2019, but some still don’t
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal had said all troopers would have body cameras by mid-2019.
5 years ago
N.J. corrections officer who mocked George Floyd’s death suspended
The corrections officer was counter-protesting a march in Franklin Township when video of the incident was filmed.
5 years ago
On 12th day of police protests in Philly region, suburbs take center stage
Gatherings were planned Wednesday in Upper Darby, Lansdowne and Pennsauken as Philadelphia’s streets were relatively quiet.
5 years ago
How Kenney was able to remove the Rizzo statue without additional approval
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney used a legal loophole in the statue’s maintenance agreement.
5 years ago
‘There is no neutral’: ‘Nice white people’ can still be complicit in a racist society
White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo says that the status quo in the U.S. is racism, and for white people, that's comfortable. "We've got to start making it uncomfortable."
5 years ago
N.J. corrections officer mocks George Floyd’s death as protesters pass
A white man seen mocking George Floyd's death as Black Lives Matter protesters passed by is a corrections officer in South Jersey, officials confirmed to NBC10.
5 years ago
I’m a doctor who treated protesters tear-gassed and shot by rubber bullets
An account from the midst of Philly’s upheaval.
5 years ago
Who has power and what’s their purpose?: Reflections on a silent prayer
Rev. David W. Brown reflects on power, privilege and community.
5 years ago
Philly sanitation workers demand PPE and hazard pay; vigil for justice held in Trevose
Over 100 Streets Dept. workers sanitation rallied near City Hall Tuesday morning to protest their treatment during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
5 years ago
Photo essay: Protests continue in Philadelphia while suburbs join the call for police reform
Weeks of protest in Philadelphia followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
5 years ago