Culture
Looking Backward to Move Forward: Feminism Is the Path Toward Liberation
A Review of Joanna Scutts’ “Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism.”
Emily French
June 28, 2022
Emily French
Culture
Let’s Bend the Long Arc Toward Justice: A Review of Ibram X. Kendi’s New Book ‘How to Raise an Anti-Racist’
Kendi has some great suggestions for how parents can be intentional in nurturing children to be culturally competent and free from myths of white supremacy.
Emily French
June 18, 2022
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Voices of Gay Liberation: The Impact of the Stonewall Riots
With attacks on LGBTQ communities launched from school boards to state legislatures, now is a good time to read “Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America.”
Emily French
June 15, 2022
Culture
Laboratories of Autocracy: From Harrisburg to Other Statehouses Across the Country
A new book is a clarion call to organize for local elections and issues as passionately as you do for national ones.
Emily French
June 6, 2022
Culture
In Flights for Women’s Rights
Nell McShane Wulfhart recounts what happened with labor and women’s rights in the airline industry, American Airlines, and the Transportation Workers Union in the 1960s.
Emily French
May 24, 2022
Despite Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts to NPR and PBS, WHYY Is on Solid Financial Footing – for Now
May 9, 2025
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
Exclusive: Agency Responsible for Report on Student Abuse Allegations at Jamison Elementary School at Risk from Trump Administration’s Proposed Federal Funding Cuts
May 8, 2025
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senator John Fetterman Raises Alarms with Outburst at Meeting with Union Officials
May 7, 2025
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Bucks County Commissioners Meeting Packed with Residents Fired Up Over Sheriff’s ICE Agreement
May 7, 2025
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
Hearings in Harrisburg Show Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Unable to Find Consensus Around Much-needed Cyber Charter School Reform
May 7, 2025
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
