COVID-19
COVID-19: LIHEAP Recovery Crisis Program Provides Assistance to Customers Struggling With Utility Bills
LIHEAP is now open and accepting applications until Aug. 31, 2020 or until funds are exhausted
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Neighborhoods
Center City
COVID-19: Director of 1918 Influenza Exhibit Talks Coronavirus
A conversation with Robert D. Hicks, who led the development of the Mütter Museum’s Spit Spreads Death exhibit, about how the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic compares to COVID-19, and what we can learn from the past. [continue reading…]
Education
Spring Garden: Students March to Protest Racism in Philadelphia Schools
Youth for Black Lives, an independent Philadelphia activist group, marched from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to City Hall on Sunday, Aug. 2 to protest racism in Philadelphia schools. [continue reading…]
City Hall
City Hall: Officials Say City’s Post-COVID Economy Must Be More Equitable
In a hearing on Philadelphia’s path towards economic recovery, testimony from officials stressed plans to make the new economy more fair. [continue reading…]
Center City
Spring Garden: Community Protests in Advance of Belarus Election
In anticipation of the presidential election on Aug. 9 in Belarus, protestors assembled at the Art Museum to protest the Belarusian government. [continue reading…]
COVID-19
Mt. Airy: Lovett Librarian Shares Stories and Books with Community Despite Coronavirus
Quarantine hasn’t stopped some Philadelphia kids from spending time with their favorite librarian. Dana Giusti, the children’s librarian at Mt. Airy’s Lovett Library has hosted virtual story times over Facebook Live for children since the [continue reading…]
Business
Tacony: Tool Library Launches, Offering Affordable Access to Home Improvement
The library will make tools ranging from circular saws to spotlights borrowable for up to one week, for a small fee. [continue reading…]
Center City
Center City: Demonstrators Rally, March Onto I-676 to Protest Police Violence
The protest followed demonstrations in which police used tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets against civilians. Organizers demanded Mayor Kenney resign in response and for the police to be defunded. [continue reading…]
City Hall
City Hall: Council Approves New Renter Protections
Measures include a lengthy extension of the city’s eviction moratorium and the waiving of all late fees on rent. [continue reading…]
Neighborhoods
Riverfront: Along the Waterfront, a New Deal Era Tour Revisited
As part of the stimulus of the New Deal, President Franklin Deleano Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed thousands of writers under the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). One of the primary achievements of the FWP [continue reading…]