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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

Abortion rights supporters and opponents protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on January 27, 2017. The issue of abortion will spark millions of dollars in spending on advocacy for and against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. (Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

A lifetime investment: Big money pours into Supreme Court battle

President Trump hasn't yet nominated a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but the fight over confirming that nominee began the day Kennedy gave notice.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, June 29, 2018

A week after having the police called on them at a Cinemark theater in West Philadelphia, a black couple are calling for a boycott of the ...

Air Date: June 29, 2018

Listen 18:02
Philadelphia Senator Anthony Williams, Governor Tom Wolf, and Philadelphia Representative Jordan Harris pose for pictures after signing the Clean Slate bill. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Wolf signs law to seal certain Pa. criminal records

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill to wipe clean criminal records for certain low-level offenders if they go a decade without any other convictions.

8 years ago

James Meadours delivers the keynote address at a summit in New Jersey to propose reforms to prevent sexual abuse of people with intellectual disabilities. Meadours, a rape survivor with an intellectual disability, travels the country to raise awareness. (Joseph Shapiro/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

States aim to halt sexual abuse of people with intellectual disabilities

In Pa., legislation passed the state House of Representatives earlier this month that would make it easier for people with intellectual disabilities to testify in court.

8 years ago

President Trump signs a posthumous pardon for boxer Jack Johnson on May 24. The White House has privately asked prisoner advocates in recent weeks for the names of more potential clemency candidates. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Looking to grant clemency to more prisoners, White House asks advocates for names

The outreach came in the wake of the president's recent spate of pardons and commutations, most of which were granted to public figures or those who received media attention.

8 years ago

Ashley Jimenez filmed as her husband was speaking to police at the Cinemark theater.
Community

Theater manager calls cops on black couple retrieving kids

A black family says a Philadelphia movie theater manager called police when they tried to retrieve their children from a theater after getting a refund.

8 years ago

Alison Ettel threatened to call the police on a young African-American girl selling water on the sidewalk.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Waiting for sight beyond color

The rash of videotaped incidents in which white people have called police on black people for trivial reasons has reached fever pitch.

8 years ago

The FBI says reports of sexual assaults on commercial airline flights are on the rise. (Adam Hester/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

36,000 feet in the air, flight attendants and passengers say ‘me, too’

About 1 in 5 flight attendants say they have witnessed a passenger being sexually assaulted or had an assault reported to them.

8 years ago

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