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Rutgers University archivist Stephanie Crawford
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Rutgers archivist collecting Women’s March signs and memorabilia

Rutgers University is collecting Women's March signs and memorabilia to document the feminism and grassroots activism of the historic movement.

8 years ago

Protesters are shown gathered on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the Women's March in Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan 21, 2017. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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Community

Women’s marches across the country will focus on the vote

8 years ago

Artists (from left) Ricky Yanas, Grimaldi Baez and Sheldon Abba at their exhibit,
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

In Puerto Rico, Philadelphia artists find activism in wake of hurricanes

The aftermath of Hurricane Maria may give rise to mobilized activism in Puerto Rico, finds a team of Philadelphia artists.

8 years ago

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William Merritt Jr. teaches boys how to fix a tie during MLK Day of Service event. (Nichelle Polston/WHYY)
Community

Delaware organization focuses on raising generation of ‘MLK’ leaders

A local organization remains committed to Wilmington youth especially when it comes to helping young boys become the next generation of leaders.

8 years ago

 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
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As Trump ends temporary protections for Salvadorans, this poet writes to humanize the immigrant story

8 years ago

Martin Luther King speaks in Atlanta in 1960.
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Education

50 years ago Dr. King told these Philly kids to lay a blueprint, and they did

King's speech to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in South Philadelphia urged them to make better lives. Many of them did.

8 years ago

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Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala. She testified:
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Community

Meet the fearless cook who secretly fed — and funded — the civil rights movement

Georgia Gilmore used the profits from selling her food to others in the movement to help pay for alternative transportation in Montgomery during the 381-day bus boycot.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Lifestyle

Poetry, race relations, and MLK

Guests: Tracy K. Smith, Jonathan Rieder, Michael Eric Dyson For today’s Martin Luther King Holiday, we’re goi ...

Air Date: January 15, 2018

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The Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson with Coretta Scott King and Bishop Walker. (Courtesy Rev. Casson)
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Community

Vowing to uphold MLK’s mission

Some called Martin Luther King Jr. a visionary. Others called him a troublemaker. For Wilmington minister Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson, he was an inspiration.

8 years ago

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures and shouts to his congregation in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. on April 30, 1967 as he urges America to repent and abandon what he called its
Politics & Policy

Leaders say Trump presidency is at odds with MLK’s legacy

The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump's presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump's own making.

8 years ago

Dion Diamond listens with his eyes closed to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, at a
NPR
Community

The civil rights activist whose name you’ve probably never heard

Dion Diamond was sitting at a "whites-only" lunch counter in Arlington, Va., in 1960 when a crowd started gathering around him.

8 years ago

University of Pennsylvania Chaplain Charles
Community

Daring to put legs on faith with the inspiration of MLK

Rising to the challenges of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy encompasses more than a day of service.

8 years ago

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Maya Dena Hairston
Speak Easy
Community

This is why King’s life, legacy, and hope still matter

Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental in moving us forward, but much work remains to be done. I am hopeful for the future, because I believe there is more good than bad.

8 years ago

Demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) rally outside the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles last week.
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Courts & Law

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s decision to end DACA

A federal judge in California late Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

8 years ago

Christine Riddick, mother of Eric Riddick, (left) his wife Dana Baker-Riddick, (center) and Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif protest outside the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in an attempt to deliver information they say will prove the innocence of Eric Riddick, who’s been incarcerated for 26 years. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Black Lives Matter, family press Philly DA to release inmate they say is innocent

Eric Riddicks' mother says he wasn't the killer in a 1991 homicide. She delivered the paperwork she says proves his innocence to new top prosecutor, Larry Krasner.

8 years ago

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