North Philadelphia

This past February, Yuliia Bihun, her 2-year-old daughter, and her husband were back home in Kyiv, Ukraine when their home started to shake from Russian bombs at five in the morning.

Block Gives Back, a community service nonprofit, started hosting Peace & Play Day in 2017 to encourage residents to use public parks more and make them safe spaces from gun violence in their communities.

The Lenfest Center, also known as North10, has released a new strategic plan centered on the organization’s commitment to the surrounding community.

Al-Aqsa Eman Mustafa is a teacher at Al-Aqsa School, a private Islamic day school that is part of Al-Aqsa Islamic Society mosque at 1501 Germantown Ave. Al-Aqsa is an important center for many Philadelphia muslims, hosting religious services, a halal grocery store, and an Islamic school.

Based in North Philadelphia, Amber Art and Design is a non-profit company run by a collective of five public artists from all over the region.

For decades, Philadelphia has tried to rehabilitate vacant properties to create affordable housing options, but progress has stalled — and it’s not for lack of redevelopment efforts.

The Philadelphia Probation office hosted a gun violence  prevention and resources fair that was held at the Joseph E. Mander Playground located in North Philadelphia on April 11, 2022.

The Trans Art Market was held outside Love City Brewing in support of.Cars 4 Philly and Housing Reparations for Philadelphia, both organizations that focused on economic justice for black and brown communities.