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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Social Justice

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 1970 file photo, an NYPD officer grabs a youth by the hair as another officer clubs a young man during a confrontation in Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march in New York. A year earlier, the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police near a bar called the Stonewall Inn, was a vital catalyst in expanding LGBT activism nationwide and abroad. (AP Photo/File)
Community

50 years after Stonewall, LGBT rights are a work in progress

From the perspective of veteran activists, the progress has been astounding.

7 years ago

2014 Princeton University alumna Kellen Heniford participated in a Me Too panel at Princeton University on June 1, 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey. Heniford walked out of the panel in protest of the presence of Washington, D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson who represented Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Community

Princeton alumni, students protest over panelist representing Brett Kavanaugh

Supported by a student group demanding Title IX reforms, a panel member walked out over the inclusion of a lawyer representing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

7 years ago

Jessica Hilburn-Holmes, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, stands near the site at 8th and Race streets in Chinatown that will be the Equal Justice Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

New $65M legal center hopes to be game changer for Philly’s poor

The Equal Justice Center will be a one-stop-shop for low-income residents to get help from Philly’s civil legal aid community.

7 years ago

Civil rights
NPR
Community

Theresa Burroughs, voting rights activist, dies at 89 in Alabama

Theresa Burroughs, who proudly called herself a foot soldier for the right to vote, has died in Greensboro, Ala. She was 89.

7 years ago

California Highway Patrol officers block an interstate entrance as protesters march. Police use of deadly force became a focus for advocates in California after the district attorney declined to prosecute the officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man whose death sparked demonstrations in the state and across the country (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

In California, agreement on new rules for when police can use deadly force

Civil rights advocates and law enforcement groups have reached an agreement in the California legislature on new rules for when police can use deadly force.

7 years ago

(photo credit, Paula Allen)
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Eve Ensler’s ‘The Apology’

Playwright and activist Eve Ensler discusses her new book "The Apology," written as a letter from her father apologizing for years of sexual abuse.

Air Date: May 23, 2019 10:00 am

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Michael Jackson in 1988. (Dave Hogan/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Before and after: What it’s like listening to Michael Jackson now

The allegations against Michael Jackson in the documentary Leaving Neverland make listening to his songs a struggle, one that resists the comfort those songs once provided.

7 years ago

Mothers bring life to a world where death too often holds sway. They 
 bring authenticity to a world where relationships are often fake. (lastudio87/Big Stock)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Experiment

We need more mothers

Mothers bring life to a world where death too often holds sway. They bring authenticity to a world where relationships are often fake.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Uber driver consults her phone during a shift. (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

City of Philadelphia sues Uber on eve of driver revolt

There will be a lot to talk about in your Uber Wednesday — if you can get one.

7 years ago

About 30 activists from different organizations marched in solidarity for workers’ rights on May Day on Rising Sun Avenue in the lower Northeast section of Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

More than 100 Pa. businesses close for May Day to support immigrant and working communities

Pennsylvania rallies staged as part of International Workers’ Day call for raising the minimum wage and supporting immigrant communities.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a campaign stop on Friday, April 26, 2019, at Allen University in Columbia, S.C. (Meg Kinnard/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Cory Booker offers plan to address environmental inequality

Booker says addressing environmental inequality is one of today's civil rights battles.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Stacey Abrams: her politics and her life

Stacey Abrams talks about her book, "Lead from the Outside" and about current politics, voting rights, and her personal story.

Air Date: April 5, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:31
Albert Woodfox served more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Angola Prison in Louisiana. (photo credit, Peter Puna)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Ending solitary confinement

We talk about solitary confinement in American prisons with Albert Woodfox, who served more then 40 years in isolation in Angola Prison, and Amy Fettig, of the ACLU.

Air Date: March 27, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:45
In this file photo, Pat Albright speaks at the state Capitol in defense of the General Assistance program, flanked by sign language translators. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

The Poor People’s Campaign is back in Harrisburg with a long list of demands

The Poor People's Campaign, a loose coalition of political process reformers, social safety net supporters, racial justice advocates and many others made a stop in Harrisburg.

7 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Community

Facebook to overhaul ad targeting to prevent discrimination

Facebook will overhaul its ad-targeting systems to prevent discrimination in housing, credit and employment ads as part of a legal settlement.

7 years ago

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