Neighborhoods

José Ortiz-Pagán is a Puerto Rican visual artist based in Philadelphia. His work focuses on harnessing indigenous spiritual practices through murals, installations, performances and spiritual rituals to create community-engaged art. Ortiz-Pagán spoke to Philadelphia Neighborhoods

The Trump administration’s crackdown on arts and culture funding has had particularly dire consequences for queer and trans artists and the organizations that support them. A PA Humanities CultureCheck report found that more than 90%

Philadelphia Neighborhoods sat down with Marilyn Rodriguez, the Education Director at Taller Puertorriqueño. Taller is an arts and culture organization in the heart North Philadelphia, a neighborhood that is home to  approximately 67,000 Hispanic residents.

Philadelphia’s Muslim communities are working to build safe spaces as they navigate the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrant communities and an increase in Islamophobic violence since Isreal’s war on Palestine began in 2023.  Currently, there

This month, Unite Here Local 274, a labor union of nearly 4,000 private sector hotel and food service workers, is going on strike. After 17 months without a new contract, Unite Here is demanding that

As the Trump administration rolls back federal nondiscrimination protections, restricts access to gender-affirming care, and rescinds protections for transgender students’ rights to use bathrooms that match their gender identities, Philadelphia Neighborhoods Reporter Jada Montgomery sat down with

A new study has found that sports facilities in Philadelphia neighborhoods with higher percentages of white residents tend to be of higher quality than those in areas with fewer white residents. The study, conducted by

This month, Block by Block Philly, a non-profit organization that seeks to keep the streets of Philadelphia clean, held a “clean-off” with a Chicago non-profit called Cleanup Club Chicago.   The clean-off lasted for the entire month of October and challenged both cities to collect the most bags of trash possible.   David Evans, the