North Philadelphia

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

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

https://vimeo.com/18391422] When Kensington High School for Creative and Performing Arts opens at its new Front and Berks location in September, community group Youth United for Change will have realized a major victory in its neighborhood

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.”