Philly organization Erase the Rate addresses gun violence by empowering the community
A “Walk to End Homicide” is set for February 10.
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Q&A with Illustrator & Designer Hilary Sedgwick About “Hip Hop Illies”
Hilary Sedgwick created Hip Hop Illies with a core concept in mind; she wanted the personal project to be about Hip Hop but to also focus on different themes down the line. Manifesting from another project, Sedgwick first started Illies with an illustration of Biggie Smalls. She liked the drawing so much that she…
How this Philly hackathon plans to help people after prison
Power-Up Reentry: A Digital Solutions Day will bring together coders, journalists and returning citizens together.
In North Philadelphia, equitable community development requires community engagement
Esperanza’s Gabriella Gabriel Paez and Firm Hope Baptist Church’s Rev. Richard Harris discuss revitalization projects they’ve piloted in Hunting Park and Kensington and how they keep local residents top of mind.
This festival will help bail Black mothers and fathers out of jail
Circle Mobilizing Because Black Lives Matter is open to the public and raising money to get parents home for the holidays.
The Transformation Of AJ Young
There was never a particular moment when AJ Young felt that he was supposed to be a guy, but it was more of a continual questioning why it was he felt uncomfortable around friends and family. Not just generally, but socially. Young was born Catherine Rebecca Young. He grew up in Elgin, Illinois where he…
CeaseFire program introduces modified initiatives
Philadelphia CeaseFire, based at the medical school’s Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy, seeks to reduce the number of shootings and killings in the 22nd district of North Philadelphia. Ceasefire, which has been in operation for six months, is a structured and disciplined violence intervention program, developed in Chicago and based on the premise…
Lady Hoofers creates space to support female dancers, choreographers in Philly
The closest that I ever came to becoming a professional tap dancers was watching television in the late 1990s. On the “The Jamie Foxx Show” or “Saturday Night Live,” I would occasionally catch a dancer performing something fantastic. I was captivated by their fluid movement, as if their art were just second nature to them….
After school program grows food, connections.
What used to be nothing but a huge parking lot for the Philadelphia Housing Authority has become something much more to a group of residents living in the Haddington section of Philadelphia. Nearly hidden amidst a cluster of homes, the Conestoga Pearl Gardens is full of garden beds neatly in rows, cherry trees ready to…
Butkovitz unveils plans for potential drone usage
As part of an ongoing effort to explore how technology can be utilized to improve government function, City Controller Alan Butkovitz announced Wednesday that the city has been using drones to inspect dangerous buildings in neighborhoods across Philadelphia. Butkovitz and his team selected four locations around the city to test the drone’s capacity to make…