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 ...

Tim Popp sits on a couch outside of one of Music Theatre Philly’s dance studios. While arts education is slowly rebuilt in the Philadelphia school district, local programs across the city have built a ...

Hale Womble, an owner of a rescued pit bull named Harper, walked into ACCT Philadelphia not thinking he would leave with a pet. After he met Harper, he said “Yep, you’re coming home and we’re going to ...

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, ...

Often the first targeted by budget cuts, arts education is at a fickle and tenuous spot in K-12 education. The biggest supporters for the youth in the arts are those in the arts industry who know how ...

From Churches to Delis, Prayers to Pierogis, Port Richmond is the Polish Community’s Home in the city of Philadelphia. For years the little neighborhood on the banks of the Delaware River have served ...

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 ...

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 ...

Food has a way of bringing people together, and the recent East Kensington Neighbors Association (EKNA) meeting was no exception. Attendees were surprised by a spread of homemade dumplings filled with ...

Theresa Romanowska and Micheal Blichasz have worked at the Polish American Cultural Center in Old City for years. Romanowska, the center’s special events coordinator, is a Port Richmond native and a ...

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 ...