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Social Justice

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

Sahar Pirzada, program and outreach manager for HEART, leads a workshop at Peace Over Violence in downtown Los Angeles.
(Josie Huang/KPCC)
NPR
Education

Muslim sex educators forge their own #MeToo movement

"Growing up, I kind of believed that sexual violence was, just in general, a Western concept, like it doesn't happen to people who are Muslim."

8 years ago

Sign-carrying participants march on the southern leg of the Poor People's Campaign May 10, 1968, in Atlanta. (AP file photo)
Community

Philly-region activists heading to D.C. for mass rally against poverty

The event on the National Mall kicks off the next phase of the new Poor People’s Campaign to continue – and build upon – the original campaign started by MLK

8 years ago

Journalists Max Marin and Ryan Briggs reported on sexual harassment at City Hall for Philadelphia Weekly. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Delving into the story behind the story of sexual harassment at Philly City Hall

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn, talks with journalists Max Marin and Ryan Briggs about how sexual harassment in city government has gone unreported and unrecorded.

8 years ago

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About 15,000 high school students worked with CollegePoint advisers this year to pick a college. (Sam Rowe for NPR)
NPR
Education

How virtual advisers help low-income students apply to college

Research shows that 1 in 4 students juggle the writing, the studying, the researching and applying to college completely on their own.

8 years ago

Demonstrators speak and play guitar at the last of six Poor People's Campaign rallies. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Poor People’s Campaign holds sixth and final rally in Harrisburg

After staging demonstrations for weeks, the Pennsylvania chapter of the national Poor People's Campaign has ended its extended residency in the state Capitol rotunda.

8 years ago

FILE - In this Monday, June 18, 2018, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump will be in Las Vegas on Saturday, June 23, 2018, to headline the Nevada Republican Party's annual convention and appear at a fundraiser with Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller, Nevada officials confirmed Monday, June 18. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Politics & Policy

Border policy fuels backlash against Trump

Amid the criticism, the president dug in Monday , again falsely blaming Democrats for the crisis. His administration put the practice in place and could easily end it.

8 years ago

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018.
Politics & Policy

Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas

Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing.

8 years ago

The March For Our Lives movement is hitting the road this summer to register young people to vote ahead of the November mid-term elections. (Miami Herald/TNS via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Parkland survivors launch tour to register young voters and get them out in November

A nationwide tour will make 50-plus stops in more than 20 states, including Iowa, Texas, South Carolina and Connecticut.

8 years ago

Joan Cashin volunteered to help organize and prepare the Mule Train. (Courtesy of Roland Freeman)
NPR
Community

In 1968, poor Americans came to D.C. to protest, some by mule

The Mule Train left the Mississippi Delta, for Washington, D.C. It was part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last major effort to mobilize impoverished Americans.

8 years ago

(Den Belitsky/BigStock)
Community

Moving on — and making it matter

As the years pass, I sense more acutely the importance of working to make a difference.

8 years ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
Politics & Policy

A look at N. Korea’s human rights abuses Trump played down

"It's rough," Trump allowed after being asked about North Korea's human rights record. He then said: "It's rough in a lot of places, by the way. Not just there."

8 years ago

This Jan. 26, 2018 police body-camera footage released by Milwaukee Police Department shows NBA Bucks guard Sterling Brown as he talks to arresting police officers after being shot by a stun gun in a Walgreens parking lot in Milwaukee.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Black athletes becoming targets instead of heroes

After failing to defeat poverty, drugs and terrorism, America has decided to fight an enemy we can plainly see — black guys who can punt, pass kick, or dribble.

8 years ago

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