After 20 years of what residents are calling abandonment, Catalina Hunter, One Hope Community Church, United Way and local residents decided it was time to make use of the vacant lot. Within a year, this [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/17933003] Eric Pellini looks at Victory Outreach’s attempt to get drug users off the streets in Kensington.
https://vimeo.com/17933160] The Trolley Car Diner was transported by truck 10 years ago from Wilkes Barre, Pa., to its current site in Mount Airy. Owner Ken Weinstein was able to find a vacant Roy Rogers site [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18641367] On the main street of a little neighborhood sitting on the edge of Philadelphia’s border bleeding into suburbia, a once-popular pastry factory is resurrecting its namesake and the hot glazed doughnut. Standing underneath the [continue reading…]
Leroy Fisher can’t help but smile when talking about Hunting Park, his boyish beam spreading across his cheeks that now glisten from the tears that fill his eyes. “Why [do I cry] in every interview?” [continue reading…]
A thick magenta curtain closes in the room where Daren Dieter spends his time at his home on Lawnton Avenue. “I watch a lot more television than I used to watch,” says Dieter. Dieter, now [continue reading…]
Thirty pairs of hopeful eyes gazed up at Mitch Little with anticipation as he cracked open the first pages of a children’s book. Surrounded by press and unfamiliar dignitaries of the South Philadelphia area, this [continue reading…]
Lawncrest has gone through a drastic change in the eyes of the people who have lived there all their lives. A community that once was solely described as a close-knit, working class residency is now [continue reading…]
The Philadelphia Police Athletic League, or PAL as most people identify it, is an independent non-profit organization that began in 1947. Its mission statement is comprised of several ideas revolving around one central theme–making a [continue reading…]
The Black Writers Museum is a recent addition to Maplewood Mall, a small cobblestone street within the Germantown community. The Black Writers Museum, which opened in June at 29 W. Maplewood Ave., is the only museum [continue reading…]
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