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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Silagh White proudly hosts Dr. Robert Mayer as they discuss his new book, In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow, which follows the the little-known stories of the young Mississippians who were galvanized into activism by the horrific murder of Emmett Till, and how this important history is taught in schools today.
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Bethlehem-based test maker OraSure Technologies says its COVID-19 rapid test can detect the highly-transmissible Omicron variant. WDIY's Sarit Laschinsky has more. -
On the next Galactic Travels™, the month-long focus on Palancar continues. The Featured CD at Midnight will be Final Theory Volume 2 on Emergent World Records.
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Before we bid farewell to 2021, let's take one last look at our favorite albums from December! These were the ten albums with the most plays on WDIY during the month.
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Last year's inflation, the highest in decades...Dr. Kamran Afshar takes a look at this past year and more in his synopsis of the week's economic news and trends across the Lehigh Valley and the nation.
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Dr. Hasshan Batts welcomes Julie, Marcus, and Mike Viglianti as his first guests on Let's Talk where they discuss "The Talk," a common practice in many households with various interpretations.
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Letitia James' office gave its most detailed accounting yet of its probe into allegations that Trump's company repeatedly misstated the value of assets to get favorable loans or slash its tax burden.
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André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died. He was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe.
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A two-month-long grand jury investigation led to the filing of criminal charges against three Philadelphia-area officers who fired their weapons at a car amid crowds of people.
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The FAA says 5G service could interfere with critical navigation systems on some aircraft and will restrict flights into some airports, which could lead to widespread delays and cancellations.
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A coalition of media groups says restrictions on access to the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers amount to an unconstitutional closing of the courtroom.
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