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Social Justice

In June, Muslim kids were asked to leave the Foster Brown Pool in Wilmington because of  what they were wearing. Now, the city has paid $50,000 to settle a discrimination claim. (Image via Google Maps)
Community

Wilmington mayor apologizes, arranges meeting with Muslim group asked to leave pool

Mike Purzycki issued an apology and is meeting with members of the Muslim community after a teacher and her young Muslim students were asked to leave a public pool.

7 years ago

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Members of the Chicago Police Department interact with an angry crowd at the scene of a police involved shooting in Chicago, on July 14. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune via AP)
Community

Man killed by Chicago police ran away, reached for waist

Footage from body cameras and surveillance cameras shows that a man who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer was armed with what appears to be a handgun.

7 years ago

This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. (AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

‘New information’ prompts U.S. to reopen Emmett Till case

A year after a book on the killing of black teen Emmett Till revealed that a key figure in the case acknowledged lying, the federal government has reopened its investigation.

7 years ago

Edgar Perez Ramirez, left, stands with his 4-year-old son, Franco, in their home in Covington, Ky., on April 28, 2018. Perez left San Marcos, Guatemala, for Kentucky after his father was killed. He was heading to work when agents stopped and arrested him in December. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Courts & Law

Hunger, fear, desperation: What came of an ordinary ICE raid

It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken

7 years ago

Immigration policy protesters have moved from the ICE headquarters at Eighth and Cherry streets to City Hall and are asking Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney to end an agreement with ICE. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Mayor Kenney agrees with ICE protesters, but doesn’t want a repeat of Occupy Philly

Protest moves from ICE office to City Hall, pressuring Philadelphia mayor to end agreement allowing immigration officials to view a real-time arrest database

7 years ago

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The finale hour of Sunday morning's marathon General Assembly session saw lawmakers give final approval to a bill that would guarantee expungement to those with one conviction of marijuana possession or use. (bigstockphoto.com)
Courts & Law

New Delaware law guarantees expungement for one pot conviction

Nearly 1,300 people with a single conviction of marijuana possession or use could get an automatic expungement.

7 years ago

Protesters camped outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices at 8th and Cherry streets are demanding that Mayor Jim Kenney end the city's data sharing contract with ICE.
Politics & Policy

Protesters demand end of Philly’s contract with ICE

The city's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement grants the agency access to the Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System, a real-time arrest database.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 5, 2018

Protestors continue to challenge PARS, the Philadelphia program that allows ICE access to city data.  Businesses affected by this week ...

Air Date: July 5, 2018

Listen 21:14
Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors Smith talks to reporters during a May news conference in Seattle. Kukors Smith sued USA Swimming, alleging the sport's national governing body knew her former coach sexually abused her as a minor and covered it up. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
NPR
Community

As USA Swimming grapples with sexual abuse, athletes cite lack of female coaches

There are more than 150 coaches on USA Swimming's permanently banned list. Almost all are men, most of whom the organization has deemed to have violated its code of conduct.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 4, 2018

Independence Day in a deeply divided United States is causing many Americans to ponder patriotism. Activist Giana Graves joins the show t ...

Air Date: July 4, 2018

Listen 22:04
At Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia, children donate books and make bookmarks for kids and immigrant families held at the Berks County Detention Center. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Book delivery from Philly kids to federal detention center hits snag

The goal was to provide a token of comfort, escape, to the roughly 20 migrant kids staying at the center in Berks County.

7 years ago

Taney Street is named for the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who wrote the infamous Dred Scott decision. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A renewed push to give Taney Street a different name

Taney Street is named after Roger B. Taney, fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of what is arguably its most infamous decision, Dred Scott v. Sanford.

7 years ago

Protesters rally at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at 8th and Cherry streets after a rally in Philadelphia on June 30. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Instead of looking for attention, demonstrate for change – in voting booth

I cannot help wondering why more of us did not spend 2016 engaging in the most peaceful protest of all – the vote.

7 years ago

Cadets color guard members move to the field before their first home performance in 2018. (Jessica Griffin, Inquirer/Daily News)
Community

Allentown’s famed Cadets rise again after months of scandal and tumult

Some had worried a #MeToo scandal would be fatal for one of the nation’s oldest and most decorated drum corps.

7 years ago

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A store closing sign for May 29 is posted at a pickup counter at a Starbucks store, Friday, May 25, 2018, in Chicago. Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is taking to try to restore its tarnished diversity-friendly image.
Community

Over two months after Philly arrests, Starbucks gets a list of next steps

Starbucks gets list of suggestions for cutting bias from the company in the long-term.

7 years ago

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