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Social Justice

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

Karmeea Chisolm tells the crowd, “Don’t be fooled by the term ‘mass shooting.' Every life matters,” at the demonstration against gun violence Monday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly students take steps to demand action on gun violence

Annual demonstration brings hundreds of young people to Philadelphia Museum of Art steps to call for changes in gun laws.

8 years ago

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks at the Justice Department's Executive Officer for Immigration Review (EOIR) Annual Legal Training Program on Monday in Tysons, Va. Sessions spoke about his plan to limit reasons for people to claim asylum in the U.S
NPR
Politics & Policy

Attorney General denies asylum to victims of domestic abuse, gang violence

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is imposing sharp new limits on who can get asylum in the United States

8 years ago

Isaac Gardner (left), of the Justice for David Jones Coalition, leads a small protest outside the district attorney's office calling for charges against Ryan Pownall, the Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot Jones during a traffic stop.
Courts & Law

A year later, community members demand justice for Philly man slain by cop

They're calling for officer who fired fatal shot to be criminally charged. The city's district attorney's office is investigating.

8 years ago

Adrian Fields
Community

Not just Starbucks: Involuntary homebody

Adrian Fields doesn’t like to go out.

8 years ago

William Wright-El
Community

Not just Starbucks: Buying a used car while black

Growing up, Wright-El said, he had experienced numerous instances of being profiled and harassed by police officers.

8 years ago

Black coffee shop owners gather for a live-streamed conversation about retail racism and supporting black businesses at Amalgam Comics and Coffeeshop in Kensington. Participating are (clockwise from left) Amalgam owner Ariell Johnson, owner of Franny Lou's Porch Blew MaryWillow, activist Mark Lamont Hill, Shantrell P. Lewis of Shoppe Black, Keba Konte of Red Bay Coffee, and activist Pam Africa.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

‘Challenge to us, as black businesses, is how do we do business differently’

Owners of small coffeeshops gather to talk about building up businesses in black community rather than boycotting Starbucks and other chains.

8 years ago

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Radio Times
Community

The Starbucks arrests: race, bias and policing

Guests: Kevin Woodson, Mark Kelly Tyler, Stacey Sinclair Tuesday afternoon 8,000 Starbucks will close for unconsc ...

Air Date: May 29, 2018 10:00 am

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 FILE - In this April 2, 1965 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., second from right, speaks at a news conference next to John Lewis, to his left, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/William A. Smith, File)
Community

King, Conversation and Coffee

Some of the world’s greatest moments of social change began with a simple conversation.

8 years ago

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

Anti-bias training day for Starbucks

The identical, 4-hour sessions will happen inside 8,000 company-owned stores. It’ll be part history lesson, part personal exploration, part refresher course on company policy.

8 years ago

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In one Indiana prison, a program allows incarcerated moms to raise their newborns. (PBS)
PBS
Courts & Law

In one Indiana prison, a program allows incarcerated moms to raise their newborns

The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than any other country and a majority of these women are mothers.

8 years ago

In this Nov. 6, 2015, file photo, R. Kelly performs during the 2015 Soul Train Awards at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

#MuteRKelly co-founder on the moment, her movement and its momentum

Founded last year by Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye, #MuteRKelly seeks to draw attention to the artist's controversial past and is pressuring companies to cut ties.

8 years ago

Kyle Carney, head brewer, Tess Hart, and Bill Popwell co-founded Triple Bottom Brewery, which will be located in the city’s Spring Garden neighborhood. (Provided)
Community

In Spring Garden, trio plan to serve up social justice along with craft beer

Triple Bottom Brewing Company intends to hire workers whose criminal pasts have made it hard to land a job.

8 years ago

Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), demonstrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3, 2017. A federal judge on Tuesday became the third judge to rule against the administration's plans to end DACA after federal judges in California and New York handed down similar decisions.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Federal judge upholds DACA, calling White House decision to rescind it ‘capricious’

He said that the decision to rescind DACA must therefore be set aside, but he gave Homeland Security 90 days to "better explain its view" that DACA is illegal.

8 years ago

Berks County Residential Center.  (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Amid licensing limbo, immigration advocates push to shut down Pa. detention center

Immigrants' rights advocates have launched two initiatives, trying to pressure the state government to close down the detention center.

8 years ago

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