Events
This Weekend: King Lear, Blues, & Pennridge Community Day
Looking for fun this weekend? We’ve got you covered!
Emily Smith
July 8, 2022
Culture
Culture
Thinking Respectfully, Thinking Restoratively
A Review of “The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives.”
Emily French
July 7, 2022
Events
This Weekend: Stranger Things, Music, Tubing, Fireworks and the 4th
Looking for fun this holiday weekend? We’ve got you covered!
Emily Smith
July 1, 2022
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
News
Celebrate the Rainbow: Perkasie’s Family Pride Festival Embraces the LGBTQ Community
In a letter riddled with hateful rhetoric attacking the event, local GOP club president seeks to divide the community.
Jenny Stephens
June 24, 2022
Culture
The Empty Claims of ‘2000 Mules’
Dinesh D’Souza’s film doesn’t contain a clear chain of evidence, a logical process, basic due diligence, or good faith. It’s a big deception masquerading as a documentary.
Dr. Michael D. Gambone
June 21, 2022
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
Opinion
Why We Should All Celebrate Juneteenth
Even though President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021, too many Americans are still unfamiliar with the day or its significance.
Jazmin Kreimer
June 16, 2022
Culture
This Weekend: Drag Bingo, Father’s Day, & Juneteenth
Looking for fun this weekend? We’ve got you covered!
Emily Smith
June 16, 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.
