The Jawncast from KYW Newsradio

We talk a lot about second chances in life, but what if you never got your first? That's part of the thinking behind Triple Bottom Brewing's fair chance hiring model. Since opening in 2019, the Philadelphia-based, 10-barrel craft brewery has prioritized hiring people who face barriers for employment, such as individuals who were formerly incarcerated. The Jawncas t's Brian Seltzer visited Triple B...

The LGBTQ+ community is a big tent made up of a lot of people with very different lives and experiences. And with so many conversations recently about Philadelphia's Pride celebrations, coupled with the backdrop of anti-LGBTQ legislation being introduced and passed in statehouses across the country, we wanted to talk with individual people about what they are thinking right now. On this episode, f...

Philadelphia’s 19132 zip code sees a lot of violence. It’s also home to the Institute for the Development of African American Youth , where each week, fathers, fathers-to-be, and aspiring fathers come to talk about fatherhood and everything that comes with it. Money. Security. Custody. Snitching. No topic is off limits. Be a fly on the wall at one of IDAAY’s Young Fathers United...

Sun Ra was more than a musician. The pioneering jazz composer, keyboardist, and conductor was an experience - from his signature attire to his proclaimed connection to the cosmos. Nearly three decades after his death, Sun Ra’s house in Germantown was designated  a historic landmark  by the Philadelphia Historical Commission.  Shara Dae Howard  and  Justin Udo , curat...

Before ‘Hamilton’ or even ‘In the Heights’, a guy from Philadelphia met Lin-Manuel Miranda at college and started a hip-hop improv group called Freestyle Love Supreme. That group eventually went to Broadway and is now touring the country. They’ll be at the Miller Theater from June 7-12 , and that guy from Philadelphia - Anthony Veneziale - tells us how it all started...

The first Mother’s Day was celebrated in two places - a church in Grafton, West Virginia, and the Wanamaker Auditorium in Philadelphia. Its founder, Anna Jarvis, spent much of her life living here and died at the Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester. But it wasn’t a peaceful life - when Mother’s Day started getting commercialized, she fought forcefully against it, losing her money and health...

What makes a tweet go viral? A local professor would know. Currently studying on sabbatical at the University of Michigan, Mark Leuchter, who teaches religion at Temple University, thought it would be nice to hold an essay-writing seminar for undergrad students, with free pizza as the kicker. What happened next could only exist in a social media world. Bummed that no one showed up, Mark expressed...

In Philadelphia, few people have done more to champion and advance the LGBTQ+ cause than Gloria Casarez. Casarez, who came from Latin American descent, passed away from breast cancer nearly seven years ago, making it all the more fitting that the city recently honored her with a historical marker. On this bonus episode of The Rundown, KYW Newsradio's Shara Dae Howard looks back on the life and leg...