At a time when newsrooms across the country are shrinking and trust in news is declining, news organizations and other partners in Philadelphia have been collaborating on reporting initiatives like The Reentry Project and Broke in Philly. That partnership is due to the work of Resolve Philly, a non-profit focused on collaborative solutions journalism. The […]
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Mid-Americana: Stories From a Changing Midwest (podcast)
The Mid-Americana podcast is a series exploring the history and identity of the Midwest region through the stories of people in the region. Season one was released in 2019, and is titled “Homecoming,” and features the stories of eight native Iowans who moved away from the Midwest and then came back to stay. Season 2 […]
At the Core of Care (podcast)
At the Core of Care is a podcast series that examines key issues in healthcare and the important role nursing plays by looking at the experiences of patients, families, and communities and creative efforts of nurses and their partners to better meet the needs of the people they serve. The podcast series from the Pennsylvania […]
My American Meltingpot (podcast)
The My American Meltingpot Podcast features interviews and commentary focused on pop culture, parenting, and identity politics, from a multicultural perspective. The show is hosted by Lori L. Tharps, associate professor of journalism at Temple University, a former staff writer for Vibe and Entertainment Weekly, and author of several non-fiction books and one novel. She […]
The Loving Project, or what I did during 2017
The last regularly scheduled episode of the Loving Project podcast has been released. For the past 12 months, we’ve been conducting interviews with couples in interracial marriages and turning those stories into podcast episodes that illuminate a bit of what it’s like to be in a mulitracial family 5 decades after the Supreme Court struck […]
50 years of Loving
June 12th marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage across the country and paved the way for the much more recent (and long overdue) decision that also made same sex marriage legal. The case of Loving v. Virginia involved a black woman and her white husband who were married […]