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Students at Charter School of Wilmington and Cab Calloway School of the Arts, in Wilmington, Delaware
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Thousands of Philly-area students walk out of school over gun violence

Students from more than 50 schools in the region left their classrooms this morning for today’s National School Walkout.

9 years ago

Listen 5:13
On April 20, 1999, unidentified young women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado.. Fifteen people, including the two shooters, died. (Kevin Higley/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Decades after Columbine, preventing school shootings still vexes security experts

A 1958 deadly fire at a Chicago school was the catalyst for life-saving fire drills. Experts say the 1999 Columbine shooting spurred school security changes at a slower pace.

9 years ago

Listen 4:48
Neil Bardham and Rebecca Salus of Philly Improv Theater promote a comedy show to benefit the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Salus, a graduate of Stoneman Douglas, will host
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Marjory Stoneman Douglas alumni in Philly create comedy show to benefit Parkland students

A nationwide network of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school graduates are mobilizing for change. That includes using comedy.

9 years ago

Listen 2:20
Tonetta Graham on her Strawberry Mansion porch (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘We want to see growth’ too: Why Tonnetta Graham isn’t worried about Philly hipsters moving into her neighborhood

Graham wants the main beneficiaries to be people like herself, residents who stuck with the neighborhood during its darkest moments.

9 years ago

Listen 5:59
Carmella Hernandez and her family, taking sanctuary from deportation in a North Philadelphia church, ask for support on social media.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Despite long odds, Brady sponsoring private bill to keep immigrant family in U.S.

'It lets ICE know that we’re paying attention here,' says U.S. Rep. Bob Brady of private bill he's sponsoring.

9 years ago

Listen 2:32
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy addresses a gathering as he unveils his 2019 budget Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in the Assembly chamber of the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Some of the first-term Democratic governor's proposals are to raise the state sales tax and extend its reach, hike income taxes on the wealthy and legalize recreational marijuana. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

N.J. governor calls for higher taxes, more money for schools

Murphy wants to raise the sales tax from 6.625 percent to 7 percent and include ride-sharing services and accommodations like Airbnb.

9 years ago

Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services Commissioner David Jones testifies at a council hearing on the opioid crisis.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Philly Council members grill city officials on efforts to deal with opioid crisis

Council members’ questions for city officials took up so much of the three-hour hearing that other speakers, including treatment providers, did not have a chance to speak.

9 years ago

Listen 2:06
Science Leadership Academy student activists (from left) Tamir Harper, Ella Burrows, Horace Ryans, Kaamil Jones and Zoey Tweh. (
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Voices behind the walkout: Science Leadership Academy

Students weigh in on gun violence and the upcoming National School Walkout.

9 years ago

Listen 3:04
A view of Society Hill taken from inside the Society Hill Towers.
PlanPhilly
Community

From slums to sleek towers: How Philly became cleaner, safer, and more unequal

The reinvention of Society Hill in the 1960s is widely considered one of the first instances of gentrification — although no one called it that at the time.

9 years ago

Listen 6:37
The William & Letitia Still House at 625 South Delhi Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Found in South Philadelphia, an Underground Railroad station

From the outside, 625 South Delhi Street looks like an average Philadelphia rowhouse. But in the 1850s, it was home to Underground Railroad leaders William and Letitia Still.

9 years ago

Listen 2:04
People watch a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea  (Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Gallup finds Americans split on tariffs, consider North Korea most critical threat

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

9 years ago

Listen 5:35
Outgoing Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Pedro Tulante. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

An immigrant’s tale of becoming Philadelphia’s lawyer

After two years as Philadelphia solicitor, Sozi Tulante has resigned to teach at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

9 years ago

Listen 6:09
Jasmine Ward (front) as Pecola  and Nicolette Lynch in the background, in
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

A robust stage version of ‘The Bluest Eye’ at Arden Theatre

Grade-school characters tell a story about being black and poor in the '40s, adapted from Toni Morrison's novel.

9 years ago

Listen 2:44
A detail from John Singleton Copley’s “Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Museums’ Super Bowl bet nets Philly a portrait of patriot

The Philadelphia Museum of Art made a bet with the Museum of Fine Arts Boston over the Super Bowl. On Friday, the victor reaped its spoils.

9 years ago

Listen 2:22
Friday Arts

Les Dames d’Escoffier Philadelphia

Les Dames d’Escoffier is an international philanthropic society of professional women in the fields of food, sustainable farming, f ...

9 years ago

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