Elections: What To Know About The Only Ballot Measure This Election Day
Voters will decide if the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities should be a permanent entity in the Home Rule Charter. [continue reading…]
Voters will decide if the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities should be a permanent entity in the Home Rule Charter. [continue reading…]
Philadelphia’s tap water is inexpensive and accessible. But resident surveys reveal close to 40 percent of Philadelphians report drinking bottled water as their primary water source at home, and low-income neighborhoods show higher percentages of bottled water usage. [continue reading…]
The fundamental comfortability and taboo nature of talking about women’s health, and access to knowledge period products, and even care has never served women or menstruating people. [continue reading…]
Leading up to the election, activists were focused on advocacy and voter mobilization to keep abortion legal in Pennsylvania. Following the results of Pennsylvania’s midterm election, that work has paid off.
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Health: Hospitals Expand Care to Address Violence at the Source [continue reading…]
Independence Blue Cross is working with Cocolife.black and Cayaba Care to reduce racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity. [continue reading…]
Block Gives Back, a community service nonprofit, started hosting Peace & Play Day in 2017 to encourage residents to use public parks more and make them safe spaces from gun violence in their communities. [continue reading…]
After lots of brainstorming and a year spent hosting yoga sessions outside and sharing images on Instagram, friends Alisha Edwards and Azia Henry decided to bring their yoga studio, Hood Healers, to life. [continue reading…]
The Democratic candidate is running for the United States House of Representatives with gun violence prevention as his number one issue. [continue reading…]
April is more than just the beginning of spring, it is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. WOAR, a Philadelphia nonprofit, is leading the charge to prevent sexual violence in the area. [continue reading…]
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