Since being recognized as a federal holiday in 2021 by President Joe Biden, Juneteenth has been embraced by communities nationwide, including cities like Scranton, Pennsylvania. On June ...

New types of businesses have sprung up along the Mayfair business district over the last couple of decades. Change is relative. That seemed to be the message from longtime locals living and working ...

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s newest renovation project, the Core Project, debuted to the public on May 7, showcasing new gallery space and environmentally-friendly updates throughout the museum, ...

Anyone who knows Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar will tell you that he is a storyteller at heart. His stories are told through the jagged and shimmering pieces of tile, glass and what some would ...

Text by Michala Butler, Elizabeth DeOrnellas, Kendra Franklin and Ella Lathan. Six Philadelphia public schools were shuttered in 2012, and then there were rumors there were going to be more. “Nobody ...

Chairs at a recent City Council meeting with a note from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health about social distancing measures due to coronavirus. (Photo credit: Marissa Howe/Philadelphia ...

Mourners leave a synagogue in the early 1950s. It is not unusual to revisit an old neighborhood. Sometimes a sense of nostalgia drags people back to the places where it all began, and according to ...

Queen Mother Falaka Fattah, mother of Congressman Chaka Fattah, runs the House of Umoja, an organization that urges the community to help end gang violence among young people locally and nationally.

The former Roberts Vaux High School, located at 2300 Master Street. Text by Ella Lathan. Image by Kendra Franklin. Mighty Writers, a nonprofit after-school program that began in 2009 in South ...

Kensington as part of Mayor Cherelle Parker’s initiative to transform Kensington. Between the closure of several homeless shelters and the shuttering of one of the city’s largest food bank programs, ...

Pit bulls are often regarded as aggressive and even some countries have made owning them illegal. The breed itself is not inherently aggressive but random breeding, along with bad housing conditions ...