Click here to view on Delaware Public Media With less than two hours notice, community members flocked to Trolley Square in Wilmington Wednesday night to show their support for refugees expected to arrive in the First State in the coming months. Delaware Public Media’s Megan Pauly reports on a rally protesting executive order from President ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Christmas through a child’s eyes is the theme of this year’s Winterthur Yuletide tour. But the holidays weren’t always focused on children, large Christmas trees and gifts. Before the Civil War, tabletop Christmas trees were making their way into the average American home. Large, elaborate trees were ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Over the Thanksgiving holiday, students at Mount Pleasant High School part of Generation Voice – Delaware Public Media’s youth radio program there – recorded a conversation with a loved one. Their conversations were inspired by – and are part of – the Great Thanksgiving Listen, a national education ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media An alternative approach to traditional classroom design known as flexible seating is catching on in some Delaware schools, including New Castle Elementary. Students in Victoria Pala’s 5th grade class are listening to a Kid President video about how to disagree respectively. They’ll be writing letters to President ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Brandywine Springs Park in New Castle County may look like a common park, but it has a rich – and unique – past: as both home to natural springs and an old historic amusement park during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Delaware Public Media’s Megan Pauly ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Friday marks one year since Jeremy McDole – a 28-year-old wheelchair bound African-American man – was shot and killed by four Wilmington police officers. The state Department of Justice decided against charging any of the officers involved, but was highly critical of how one of them handled ...
Click here to view story on Delaware Public Media Next Friday will mark the one-year anniversary of Jeremy McDole’s death. The 28-year old, wheelchair-bound man was shot and killed by Wilmington police officers last September. After the Delaware’s Department of Justice investigated, it decided against charging any of the four officers involved, though it did ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Local artist D. Marque Hall works for the City of Wilmington overnights, while also training to be a professional boxer. And in between those two pursuits, Hall produces and prints his own Black Lives Matter themed coloring books. He sat under a shaded tent during the People’s ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Wilmington’s East Side Silk basketball league is back home at Kirkwood Park. A few years ago, the courts there were converted to tennis and the league was forced to venues on the other side of Wilmington. Founder Jaron “Droop” Johnson says kids in the area just don’t ...
Click here to view on Delaware Public Media Delaware is attempting to revolutionize the way it treats individuals experiencing mental health crises. It’s turning to a “living room model,” with two centers – one in Sussex, County and a new one in New Castle County. The model focuses on peer-support to help lessen stigma, and ...
