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People gather outside a Starbucks on 18th and Spruce streets in Philadelphia to protest Thursday's controversial arrests of two black men at the store. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

NAACP says Starbucks incident part of a national trend of discrimination

The NAACP is calling the arrest of two black men in a Starbucks "disgraceful."

7 years ago

Listen 3:55
Starbucks chief executive officer Kevin Johnson and chief operating officer Rosalind Brewer emerge from a meeting with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney that they said was
PlanPhilly
Money

By admitting fault in arrest of two black men at Rittenhouse Starbucks, company may spare itself long-term damage to brand

In the wake the fiasco, Starbucks has scrambled to respond

7 years ago

Montgomery County Commission Chair Valerie Arkoosh posted a video to Facebook urging him to get out of the Democratic congressional primary race.  (Screen capture from FB)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Arkoosh to Hoeffel: Hang it up

Montgomery County Commission Chair whacks Congressional candidate Joe Hoeffel in a Facebook video.

7 years ago

Listen 2:00
Protesters chant
Courts & Law

Philly DA seeks new trial for Meek Mill, raising chance he could be freed

Prosecutors said the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office wants to grant the rapper a new trial on drug and gun charges filed against him in 2007.

7 years ago

Listen 1:52
Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Money

With nuke plant shutting down, N.J. community inherits 1.7M pounds of waste

After U.S. plan to dispose of spent fuel rods fails, Lacey Township wants compensation for holding the radioactive waste from the Oyster Creek plant.

7 years ago

Listen 5:32
University of Delaware researchers are using this miniature city to test autonomous vehicles. (University of Delaware photo)
First
Community

Delaware preps for driverless cars

While the technology of self-driving cars get most of the attention, lots of tech is being added to Delaware's road infrastructure to prepare for cars of tomorrow.

7 years ago

Listen 5:35
Jose De La Cruz Ramirez, a gardener in Upper Bucks County, was criminally prosecuted before being deported to Mexico. (Courtesy of Linda Ammerman)
Courts & Law

From border-crosser to felon

The Trump administration encouraged prosecutors to seek felony charges against those who re-enter the U.S. after being deported.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania businessman Paul Mango (left) and state Sen. Scott Wagner, R-York, are engaged in an increasingly nasty campaign for the GOP nod to take on Gov. Tom Wolf in November. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Attacks in Pennsylvania governor’s race getting personal

Campaigning for GOP nomination, Scott Wagner and Paul Mango are trading intensely personal shots in their ad war.

7 years ago

Listen 3:57
Route I-81 near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law

For cops who want to help ICE crack down on illegal immigration, Pennsylvania is a free-for-all

Without guidelines or oversight, some officers are using traffic stops to question Hispanics and turn over undocumented immigrants to ICE.

7 years ago

Listen 5:35
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg drinks water while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington,Wednesday about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Most Americans concerned about privacy, personal information being sold

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

7 years ago

Listen 4:15
Tyler Riddick wrote
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Teens take on big subjects during Philly’s Mouthful Monologue Festival

Philadelphia Young Playwrights shows what on teenagers' minds during the festival.

7 years ago

Listen 2:03
Andrea Constand, center, walks into a courtroom for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse, Friday, April 13, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. Constand, Bill Cosby's chief accuser, will take the witness stand on Friday.
Courts & Law

On the stand, Cosby’s main accuser said she came to court ‘for justice’

Andrea Constand remembers thinking it was “absurd” for Bill Cosby, her friend and mentor, to have a romantic interest in her.

7 years ago

Listen 4:45
Anne Franco and her husband, Ludvin Franco, on their wedding day (Provided)
Courts & Law

In Pennsylvania, it’s open season on undocumented immigrants

ICE’s Philadelphia office is making more 'at-large' arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions than anywhere else in America.

7 years ago

Artist Jane Irish explains how she painted one of the oval rooms in the Lemon Hill mansion to depict an anti-war demonstration that took place in Valley Forge, in 1970. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Historic house in Fairmount Park redesigned as contemporary art

The Lemon Hill mansion in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park has been temporarily given over to artist Jane Irish.

7 years ago

Feranmi Okanlami is a doctor at Michigan Medicine and became partially paralyzed after an accident in 2013, during his medical residency. (Courtesy Feranmi Okanlami)
The Pulse
Health

What does it mean to be a doctor with a disability?

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

7 years ago

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