This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a group that provides free tampons, pads, and other menstrual products for students at the Community College of Philadelphia, Trans Day of Remembrance, a historic Philadelphia site that was a station on the Underground Railroad, and an aspect of Philadelphia’s history that you don’t often hear about – the role the city played in America’s vegetarian and vegan movements.
Block by Block is PhillyCAM’s LIVE community news radio program, featuring stories from Philadelphia’s neighborhoods as reported by PhillyCAM’s Radio News Fellows, a multigenerational cohort of burgeoning local journalists. Tune in for new episodes every other week, Wednesdays 5:30-6:00 PM on WPPM 106.5 FM and online at phillycam.org/listen.
Block by Block season 5 is produced by Lisa Barnes, Julia Lowe, Marion Nicvert, Sherri Pennington, Jennifer Robnett, Sultan Smalley, Natalie Thomas, and K. Michelle Watson.
Sultan Smalley and Jennifer Robnett hosted this episode, and Lisa Barnes was board operator for the show.
Brad Linder is Radio News Managing Editor for WPPM. Peta Liu is Radio Operations Manager. And Allison Durham is WPPM’s Radio Program Manager.
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