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Social Justice

San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, in Seattle, in September 2016. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
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Courts & Law

NFL arbitrator moves Colin Kaepernick’s ‘collusion’ grievance to formal hearing

Kaepernick’s allegation that the NFL colluded to deny him a contract as punishment for his lead role in player protests will get a formal hearing.

8 years ago

Gov. Jerry Brown holds a copy of a bill to end bail he signed Tuesday, Aug. 28, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, co-authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, third from right, and Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, right, makes California the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial. It goes into effect in October 2019. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
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Courts & Law

California becomes first state to end cash bail after 40-year fight

8 years ago

State Representative Scott Conklin, D-Centre, introduced two new bills on Monday, which would demand greater accountability from religious organizations. (Min Xian / Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Following clergy report, Pa. lawmaker proposes new penalties for failure to report abuse

State Representative Scott Conklin, D-Centre, introduced two new bills on Monday, which would demand greater accountability from religious organizations.

8 years ago

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)
Courts & Law

Pool incident sparks religious discrimination lawsuit against Wilmington

A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Wilmington after a teacher and her young Muslim students were asked to leave a public pool b ...

8 years ago

The planned demonstrations are in response to a riot that resulted in seven deaths in April at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. (Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Inmates plan to hold 2-week strike at prisons across U.S.

Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a two-week strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.

8 years ago

Police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as
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Community

After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus

Demonstrators toppled "Silent Sam," a monument dedicated to fallen Civil War-era soldiers.

8 years ago

FILE - In this Thursday, July 1, 2010, file photo, Bill Hybels, then-senior pastor of the megachurch Willow Creek Community Church located in Northwest-suburban Chicago, speaks in Washington. It was announced, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., that lead pastor Heather Larson is stepping down, and the entire Board of Elders will do so by the end of the year. Larson said the church needed new leadership in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against church founder Hybels. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Courts & Law

Evangelicals confront sex abuse problems in #MeToo era

The victims are coming forward to expose abuse in the Protestant evangelical world where some say the misdeeds have been just as pervasive as the acts by Catholic clergy.

8 years ago

Beyoncé performed
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Arts & Entertainment

Till victory is won: the staying power of ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a song many African-Americans know from school or church. You may know it from one of a few landmark performances.

8 years ago

Developer Steven Brown, who said his intention had always been to preserve the mural, said the building was on the verge of collapse and impossible to save. He has promised to replace it. (Annette John-Hall/WHYY)
Community

A cherished mural falls victim to Philadelphia redevelopment

A mural commemorating children lost to violence was 'memory lane' for the community. Now, the developer promises to replace the neighborhood memorial.

8 years ago

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Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, tells her story during an event put on by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia at Suzanne Roberts Theater.
Community

In Philly, #MeToo founder says next step for the movement is ‘harm reduction’

Tarana Burke sat for a discussion at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in Center City hosted by The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia Tuesday night.

8 years ago

The Most Rev. Ronald Gainer, the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., discusses child sexual abuse by clergy and a decision by the diocese to remove names of bishops going back to the 1940s after concluding they did not respond adequately to abuse allegations, during a Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, news conference in Harrisburg, Pa. The bishop apologized to victims and said the diocese is posting an online list of 71 priests and others in the church accused of the abuse. Following the Erie, Pa., diocese, the Harrisburg diocese is the second Pennsylvania diocese to get ahead of a roughly 900-page grand jury report that could be made public in August 2018, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said found more than 300
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pennsylvania Catholic church abuse report to be released

Time is ticking down to a court-ordered deadline Tuesday afternoon to decide what information to black out in a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse

8 years ago

Peter Reijmers, 29, of Charlottesville, lays flowers at a memorial on 4th Street SE where Heather Heyer was killed last August. (Justin T. Gellerson/NPR)
NPR
Community

‘Unite The Right’ rally forced Charlottesville to rethink town’s racial history

After a deadly clash between white nationalists and counterprotesters on Aug. 12 last year, Charlottesville has become shorthand for racial strife.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Community

Amplifying voices of color

Guests: Michelle Saahene, Melissa DePino MICHELLE S ...

Air Date: August 9, 2018 10:00 am

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Local students from Philly (in white shirts) and New Jersey, in grey shirts, are joined by students from Parkland, FL and around the country during a March For Our Lives National Tour stop in Philadelphia, on Tuesday (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Parkland survivors, other student activists, barnstorm through Philly

The panel of eight spoke to an audience of a couple hundred at Universal Audenried High School, in an environment that felt more intimate than boisterous.

8 years ago

Members of the Progressive National Baptist Convention march for justice on Market Street in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Calling for justice, hundreds march in Philly to start off national Baptist conference

The main goal of Monday's march along Market Street was emphasizing the importance of registering to vote, organizers say.

8 years ago

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