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 ...

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Freddy Mahugu is the founder of the Wynnefield Track Club, a running group that meets every day of the week to run early in the morning on the Schuylkill River Trail.Mahugu is a certified USA track ...

The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting, a project of The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, is a unique type of anti-gun violence program.Their main objective is to prove their ...

A group of young boys shoot a basketball into an aging hoop at the end of a large asphalt school yard. Behind them is the shell of the School District of Philadelphia’s second oldest educational ...

My Grandmother had a lingerie store, 1925 31st street, in the 30s – 50s. My father, Sidney, and his two sister Hannah (Zaza) and Sady, grew up in Strawberry Mansion, from the 1920, dad joined the US ...

Brandon Pousley, is an award winning educator and CEO of Glitter, an organization geared towards affordable cleaning for neighborhoods in Philadelphia.He shared the significance of keeping Philly ...

By Nicoletta Ariano & Jake Leonard “We deal with food insecurity, so we are providing food to people who are hungry. People who can’t get out of their house, people who are homebound, people who are ...

Construction site behind St. Lucy's School. Since 1682, when William Penn began what was called his “holy experiment,” Philadelphia has been a haven for those who practice the Catholic religion. In ...

Glen Fern is the former property of wealthy and influential miller Thomas Livezey that dates back to 1747. In its day, the sprawling farmstead at the edge of the Wissahickon Creek featured one of the ...

I went to the old saint Katherine school in Torresdale. I am now 73. I remember mother Schumann, mother Cronin,miss Parkinson et al. We climbed trees in the school yard, watched the pigs being ...

John Wanamaker. The base of John Wanamaker’s statue, located on the East Plaza, simply reads, “John Wanamaker: Citizen.” Born in 1838 in Philadelphia, Wanamaker converted an abandoned Pennsylvania ...