North Philadelphia

https://vimeo.com/17930802] About six years ago, three churches and a handful of young men set up a flag football league. The purpose of the league was more than just to have fun, it was going to

When thousands of Cambodian refugees arrived in America in the 1980s, they were in a country where they didn’t fit in but had no country to return home to. In order to survive, they banded

After James Logan’s death in 1751, his 500-acre estate was repeatedly cut up and sold off up until the mid-1900s. The farms and fields that stretched through North Philadelphia were eventually reduced to three acres.

Many houses in Logan are in poor condition. On some streets boarded-up windows are as common as glass ones. Factories are abandoned, crumbling and filled with graffiti. Most of these structures were built in the

[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

[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

Twice a day, four days a week, the basement of the Incarnation of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church on North Fifth Street might be mistaken for a kind of United Nations. But instead of governance

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