Samiha Moussa hates sitting in front of the television. It would make her head explode if she’d watch it for too long, she said. Coming to the Southwest Senior Center provides her with an alternative [continue reading…]
Frances Archer hadn’t seen anything wrong with inviting a few strangers off the street into her home for coffee. On the other hand, her daughter Lillian saw things differently. “She said, ‘I could have been [continue reading…]
For most teenagers, high school helps define where they are headed in life, molding young men and women by exposing them to pathways suitable to fulfilling their desires. Philadelphia’s unique Microsoft High School of The [continue reading…]
Around Kensington, McPherson Park carries another name — “Needle Park” — due to the abundance of discarded devices used by drug addicts scattered about this public space. Used syringes, discarded “dime bags” ($10 sale size [continue reading…]
Kensington is seeing a revival in development and an influx of young residents and entrepreneurs. But despite this upswing, the economy is still difficult for many business owners in this section of Philadelphia. Some owners [continue reading…]
Graduation marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next in everyone’s life. In 2006, the Microsoft High School of the Future located on 40th Street and Parkside Avenue opened its doors [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18641494] Very often when new government programs are implemented, it can take years for them to take effect. For example, Philadelphia launched a 10-year abatement program to boost a long decline in population in 1997. [continue reading…]
Some kids are just lazy. They don’t care. They must have bad parents. The stigma attached to truants and dropouts is highly generalized, misinformed and many times simply wrong. Lynnette C. Anderson of the Women’s [continue reading…]
On a simple walk around some sections of West Philadelphia it’s easy to find vacant lots just sitting there seemingly begging for someone to do something with them. This was the case with an 11,580 [continue reading…]
The first floor of the Nicetown-Tioga Library looks like any other library. Books are sprawled across the layout of the interior, conversations are kept to a mere whisper and “no cell phones” and “no talking” signs are posted along the walls. Upstairs is a completely different story. Sunshine spills into the large, white room where kids are partaking in an intense game of Dance Dance Revolution. A radio is blaring in the background and a group of kids are nosily playing cards in the far end of the room. [continue reading…]
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