https://vimeo.com/18395299] Ellis Ferrell lets out a deep sigh. Ferrell is wearing a back brace these days. He’s worn down and spread too thin. Fletcher Street has become synonymous with horses. The stables there existed even [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393772] “We’re about to load up the van,” says Richard Finch, head of Impact Service’s Veterans Services. “You’ll want to get a shot of that.” A re-purposed eight-passenger van pulls into the shadow of Impact [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393781] The sounds of hammers and talkative construction workers greet you as you enter the double doors of Hancock Manor. The towering building used to house a YMCA until it was transformed into Impact Service’s [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393122] Janice Brown still remembers what it felt like to hear the phone call that would change her life. She was told her daughter Latoya and granddaughter Rimanee were in a car accident. She fell [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393641] Being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence. Just ask Jennifer Poole. Poole lives in Hunting Park and sees her HIV status as no big deal. “Some people let their disease carry them [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18394190] In a conversation with Jeff Graybill, the project engineer for the Philadelphia Housing Authority, his enthusiasm about his current undertaking is nothing less than contagious. Graybill is presently leading a construction site at 22nd [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18394190] Temple University’s brand new School of Medicine building may look shiny, fancy and full of activity on the outside, but Tioga businessman Andrei Soldatov said the inside is a whole different story. “It’s like [continue reading…]
Sitting in the courtroom after her cousin was murdered, Rose Middleton told the shooter that she forgave him. Middleton’s cousin, Robert Selvy, was 53 when he was murdered by someone who lived just a few [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18395175] A van pulls up at a side door of a large concrete structure and 10 petite, mostly gray- and white-haired women, each with her hands full, emerge from behind its double doors and make [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391734] Laurisa Adorno-Camacho-Rivera, a self-proclaimed “motor mouth,” credits her father for getting her involved in the Congreso de Latinos Unidos after-school program, North Star, at Fairhill School. “He likes it a lot,” Adorno-Camacho-Rivera said with [continue reading…]
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