[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/fa1004strawberrymugshotsopening” height=550 width=600] Four white cups brimming with hot coffee sit precariously in a teetering cardboard beverage carrier perched on a customer’s forearm. She struggles to reach for the doorknob that barely clings to [continue reading…]
[soundslide url=”https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/fa1015_kensington_underthelslideshow/” height=550 width=600] Sixty-year-old Melvin Honesty was born and raised in Philadelphia and now calls the streets of Kensington his home. His usual hangout is below the neighborhood’s Market-Frankford El–a place overridden with drugs [continue reading…]
Lietuviu Namai: the “Lithuanian home,” is a cherished notion for a people who for many years endured occupation and displacement. For those of Lithuanian descent living in Philadelphia and surrounding areas, Port Richmond has become [continue reading…]
The Meals on Wheels program at the Klein JCC in Northeast Philadelphia delivers nearly 50,000 meals a year, but expects that number to grow. “In a lot of cases it starts out where they need [continue reading…]
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/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…]
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…]
[soundslide url= “https://smcsites.com/soundslides/uploads/fa1008germantown_soundslide_settlement” height=550 width=600] The difficult issues of Germantown Settlement and its subsidiary Greater Germantown Housing Development Corp. (GGHDC) have been playing out in bankruptcy court like a bloodless coup d’état. The non-profit [continue reading…]
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