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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Inside the Delaware legislature
Politics & Policy

Delaware lawmakers approve bill requiring Medicaid to cover abortion procedures

The legislation expands access to abortion and the use of state funding to cover the procedures. It now goes to Gov. John Carney.

1 year ago

Fake pill bottle for Oxycontin
Courts & Law

The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

After deliberating more than six months, the justices in a 5-4 vote blocked an agreement hammered out with state and local governments and victims.

1 year ago

CNN analyst Bakari Sellers says those efforts to right racial wrongs have not panned out, and in fact, caused a powerful backlash. He joins us to talk about his new book, “The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now.”
Studio 2
Politics & Policy

CNN’s Bakari Sellers, our obsession with our roots, spicy food science

CNN analyst Bakari Sellers joined us to talk about his new book, “The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now.”

Air Date: June 19, 2024 12:00 pm

Listen 49:54
A closeup photo of the bas-relief portrait of William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
Community

Civil rights lawyer William T. Coleman honored among the founding fathers

A bas-relief sculpture of the major civil rights lawyer represents the man who shaped modern Constitutional law.

1 year ago

Boxes of pills sitting on a table.
Courts & Law

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication

It’s the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

1 year ago

The exterior of Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center.
Courts & Law

3 former juvenile detention residents sue Delaware County for alleged sexual abuse

“You have to really think about why this happened for as long as it did,” said the attorney representing the plaintiffs, “and how it was so prevalent.”

1 year ago

Listen 1:08
Jamie Gauthier posing with other members of the task force
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

New Philadelphia task force studies reparations for Black residents

Recommendations could include payments, social services, and political reforms.

1 year ago

protest encampment on college campus
NPR
Education

As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators continue to turn out at schools across the country despite the risk of detention and suspension.

1 year ago

Spain Israel Palestinians
NPR
Community

Hamas releases video of a second American being held hostage in Gaza

U.S. citizen Keith Siegel was reportedly abducted on Oct. 7 from his home in the community of Kfar Azza, close to the Gaza Strip.

1 year ago

Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture points to a padlock she installed on her bedroom
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Philadelphia man gets prison time for role in illegal eviction attempt

Kareem M. Terry was tried and sentenced more than two years after a series of events that saw police respond twice.

1 year ago

Toxic dirt pile in Camden
Community

‘A chance to tell their own stories’: New documentary tackles environmental racism in Camden

In a documentary premiering Monday, Rutgers-Camden students spotlight the environmental issues faced by residents of the city.

1 year ago

Police tape and the flashing lights of a police vehicle behind
Courts & Law

Ex-Philadelphia police officer Edsaul Mendoza pleads guilty in shooting death of 12-year-old Thomas ‘T.J.’ Siderio

Prosecutors have said that Sidiero was on the ground and unarmed when Mendoza fired the fatal shot.

1 year ago

Collingswood High School
Education

Collingswood students’ unofficial club under investigation for alleged racism, harassment

School district officials notified parents about a “non-sanctioned group of students who engaged in unacceptable actions.”

1 year ago

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a cover of a 1964 Cheltenham Township Adult School catalog
Community

60 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Cheltenham High School

King visited as part of the Cheltenham Township Adult School’s 5-Star Forum series on April 15, 1964. Other speakers included Art Buchwald, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

1 year ago

Listen 2:27
Supreme Court
Courts & Law

A Supreme Court case could have major implications for homelessness in Philly region

Some legal scholars believe the Supreme Court’s decision could have far-reaching consequences beyond the issue of homelessness.

1 year ago

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