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Mayfair

Mayfair: Reuniting the Community With a Playground

November 10, 2015Christina Ann Dogas and Sade Naderia Canty

The Mayfair Memorial Playground is a community built park and is helping the community come together. It’s located in front of Lincoln High School on Ryan Avenue. The playground received a $80,000 grant from KaBOOM

North Philadelphia

Strawberry Mansion: Widener Library Block Party Teaches Vocabulary

November 9, 2015pnadmin

It was a sunny and cool afternoon for the Widener Branch Library’s first Words at Play Vocabulary Initiative block party. Words at Play, hosted by PNC, is a community-wide initiative to show the importance of learning

Brewerytown

Brewerytown: Rep. Donna Bullock Gives Residents a New Voice in Harrisburg

November 9, 2015pnadmin

State Rep. Donna Bullock was sworn in as the legislator for the 195th District in August after her predecessor, Rep. Michelle Brownlee, pleaded guilty to a conflict of interest charge and tendered her resignation. The 195th District stretches

Environment

Northern Liberties: Liberty Lands Brings the Community Closer

November 9, 2015pnadmin and

The Liberty Lands committee wakes up early many Saturday mornings not to drink coffee and relax but to plant trees, clean up trash and pull out weeds from more than 30 garden plots. Liberty Lands sits

Arts and Entertainment

Northern Liberties: Getting the Community’s Hands Dirty

November 6, 2015pnadmin

Terrariums hang from the ceiling and green plants are everywhere inside City Planter. The former warehouse on 4th Street neat Brown is now a gardener’s sanctuary, with shelves of green plants and colorful flowers spilling out to the sidewalk, bringing

Featured Videos

Juniata Park: Animal Group Aims to Educate Pet Owners This Winter

November 5, 2015Harrison Brink

As the weather starts to get colder, people are covering up to stay warm. Yet animals are sometimes left out in the cold. This can be due to neglect or due to innocent ignorance. Regardless of

Amateur Sports

University City: Penn Sprint Football Gaining Ground

November 5, 2015pnadmin

On a cool, crisp, October night, Bill Wagner smiled as he watched his University of Pennsylvania football players practice on Franklin Field. Penn’s Sprint football team might be one of the lesser-known groups to have

Business

Old City: Non-traditional Bridal Shop Offers One-on-One Service

November 5, 2015pnadmin

Bridal fashion receives a fun, new twist at Lovely Bride, an Old City boutique that specializes in non-traditional gowns featuring indie designers from Etsy along with the classic names in the industry. Non-traditional in bridal

Amateur Sports

Point Breeze: Newly Renovated Ralph Brooks Park Aims to Unify Community

November 4, 2015Morgan Falconer

The once neglected park located at 20th and Tasker streets has transformed into a beautiful haven for Point Breeze residents to shoot hoops and plant vegetables. Urban Roots, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia, collaborated with

Point Breeze

Point Breeze: A Photojournalist’s Approach to Urban Revitalization

November 4, 2015Julianne Rose Spingler

Jessie Fox, 25, earned a degree in photojournalism but never thought of working for the news. Instead she wanted to take her camera to the streets of Philadelphia and tell stories of a changing urban landscape—a

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  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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