18+ hour, 14+ min ago   (978+ words) ODUNDE Art Sho at LOVE Park. — courtesy ODUNDE Rod Wave. — Submitted Mia Ragazza participating in Manayunk Restaurant Week. — courtesy Kory Aversa PR When: Monday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. Where: Xfinity Mobile Arena, 3601 S. Broad St. Where: Main Street Manayunk When:…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (562+ words) Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, right, presents Kenny Gamble, center, with a key to the city on Thursday night at the Dell. — CITY OF PHILADELPHIA Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, right, introduces Leon Huff to the crowd at the Dell on Thursday night....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (914+ words) Queen Mother Falaka Fattah, seated center, with grandson Anthony Bannister Fattah, left, and sitting right, Hakim Tendaji, John "Baby John" Johnson and Wayne Bridget. — Azella Gardens Longtime Philadelphia community advocate Queen Mother Falaka Fattah is being honored in a documentary…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (427+ words) At more than 200 years old, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is America’s oldest natural history museum. — VISIT PHILADELPHIA/J. Fusco For generations, Philadelphians have marveled at collections of dinosaur fossils displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (504+ words) Steven Ragsdale reflects on the historic importance of literacy in Black communities and warns that declining reading habits, fueled by screens and instant access to information, could weaken curiosity and critical thinking. — Nappy.co Our ancestors fought for the right…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (864+ words) Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids. I understood the depth of it first at a friend's twenty-first birthday party in college....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (388+ words) You do not know what it is to bury a child and be told to grieve more quietly. You do not know what it is to ask a simple question: "What happened to my son?" and watch an entire system…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (403+ words) She was about to be taken away, a slave, a prisoner. Did she know that shackles would make her wrists ache, that they’d always be too tight? Her home, her children, what else went through a newly-incarcerated Black woman’s mind…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (530+ words) Lt. Gov. Austin Davis and other local leaders stopped in Philadelphia Monday to talk about the upcoming gubernatorial election in November and draw a contrast between incumbent Josh Shapiro and challenger Stacy Garrity. “The differences between the two couldn’t be…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (232+ words) ATLANTA — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Congresswoman Lucy McBath joined the parents of 18-year-old Nolan Wells at a news conference in Atlanta on Thursday to call for a federal review of his disappearance and death. Before…...