North Philadelphia

https://vimeo.com/18392212] The droning sounds of generators, backhoes, hammers and dropped lumber fill a section of North Central Philadelphia. From Broad Street west to 20th Street, and from Oxford Street northward up to Susquehanna Avenue this

https://vimeo.com/18394876] Brick houses with green lawns rest next to vacant lots with overgrown weeds creeping through the chain-link fence. Pink-pedaled remnants of spring blanket the sidewalks.  A group of young men smoke a blunt in the backyard

https://vimeo.com/18394506] Major institutions, local businesses and households across Philadelphia are doing it— saving energy, renewing resources and going green. Just this February the city of Philadelphia joined with Recycle Bank and launched a recycling rewards

https://vimeo.com/18393740] A dozen tiny hands shoot up in the air. Bodies shake anxiously in anticipation as their mouths emit sounds of “Ooh!” and “Memememe!” One such small body is chosen to answer. As his smile

https://vimeo.com/18393618] Michele Holloway asked the question, “What don’t you like about the park?” to a group of 30 youth from Hunting Park on Friday night. A hand shot into the air, “Trash.” And another, “Violence.”

https://vimeo.com/20204248] Most people need nothing more than snacks, soda and cigarettes from their local corner grocery store. They don’t expect to find rows of fish laid out on mounds of ice, with pairs of beady

https://vimeo.com/18394175] As Ronald Hinton, the president of the Allegheny West Foundation, loads boxes of surplus Easter cupcakes onto the shelves of the Tastykake outlet that is staffed by Allegheny high school students, he beams with

https://vimeo.com/18395160] If only Stephen Girard could see the avenue named in his honor back in the mid-1800s today, his reaction might be one of disappointment. Or at least surprise. Once considered one of the wealthiest