Topic: Black Lives Matter
Generation Change Philly: The Literary Activist
Few Philadelphians have had so seismic an impact in so short a time as Jeannine Cook, social justice activist and owner of Harriett’s Bookshop. And she’s just getting started
By Lauren McCutcheon
Ideas We Should Steal: Reduce Gun Violence Through Better Policing
While murder and shootings have spiked in Philly and elsewhere, both Camden and Newark have made progress in reducing gun violence by adopting smart policing techniques. Why don’t we do what they’ve done?
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Let’s Say Black Lives Mattered
A Penn professor and novelist on what life would be like if we could see the sacred in each other
By Lorene Cary
Answering Rodney
What last week's meeting between Black and Jewish leaders tells us, now that the local head of the NAACP has been jettisoned for an anti-Semitic posting
By Larry Platt
Oy Vey, DeSean!
The reaction to the NFL star’s anti-Semitic postings flips the usual script … and may just offer a constructive way forward in Black / Jewish relations
By Larry Platt
Reality Check: Just How Much Influence Does the Philly FOP Have?
WURD’s afternoon host suggests we follow the money—and that grassroots groups start playing the same political game
By Charles D. Ellison
Guest Commentary: On Race And Place, Philly Needs One Set of Rules
A good government advocate finds the common thread in Black Lives Matter and anti-median parking activists
By Brett Mandel
Civility, We Hardly Knew Ye
When Black Lives Matter shut down a City Hall press conference, it was proof that shouting and name-calling have become our common language
By Larry Platt