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Arts & Entertainment: How One Organization Has Created a Close-knit Community for Local Performers and Songwriters

April 26, 2021 Olivia C Alongi

The Philadelphia Songwriters Project is an organization that opens up artists, both songwriters and performers, to more opportunities to showcase their music and advance their musical careers.

COVID-19

Business: Navigating Through a Pandemic and a Rise in Supporting Black Businesses

April 24, 2021 Maya A Johnson

2020 has been a trying year for Black business owners. With COVID-19 slowing down potential growth within their business, it was also a time where supporting Black businesses was on the rise.

Community Meetings

West Philadelphia: Councilmembers and Citizens Call on Wealthy Nonprofit Institutions to Pay Fair Share of Taxes

April 20, 2021 Jesse Bunch

Concerned citizens and advocates met with Philadelphia City Council members recently to demand wealthy nonprofits in the city, especially universities, pay their fair share of property taxes.  Nonprofits don’t pay property taxes but often make

Community Meetings

Kensington: Developer Seeks to Build Multiuse Property on American Street

April 19, 2021 Thomas Nemec

The South Kensington Community Partners’ zoning committee has called the proposed construction more “human-scale” than other developments in the neighborhood.

COVID-19

Northeast: Nonprofit Expands Services as Pandemic Continues

April 15, 2021 Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Helping Hands has moved to a bigger location and is now open three days a week, offering not only boxes of food but free COVID-19 testing, job finding assistance and additional resources. Ella Karlitsky and

Environment

North Philadelphia: Mayor Kenney Announces Commission to Combat Environmental Injustice

April 13, 2021 Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Mayor Jim Kenney and his administration have set forth a plan to tackle environmental issues impacting residents in Philadelphia’s underserved communities. The recent announcement of the city’s first Environmental Justice Advisory Commission gives hopes to

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Food

Social Issues: Philadelphia Community Gardens Have Impact Beyond Food

April 12, 2021 Abigail Margaret Newham

As issues of food insecurity and hunger rates rise, communities are struggling to find relief. Community gardens are helping underprivileged neighborhoods grow fresh food and strengthen community ties.

City Hall

City Hall: Virtual Town Hall Discusses Philadelphia’s Gun Violence Crisis

April 9, 2021 Iris Amanda Wexler

Councilmember Allan Domb hosted a virtual town hall to address the gun violence crisis in Philadelphia with Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and Senior Director of Criminal Justice & Public Safety Erica Atwood.

Business

Chestnut Hill: Germantown Avenue Businesses Reflect on a Year of Lockdowns

April 5, 2021 Mikyhial Terrance Clarke

After a year of stresses and diminished revenue, businesses along Chestnut Hill’s retail corridor look forward to when vaccinated residents come out shopping again.

Chinatown

Chinatown: Lunar New Year Celebrations Continue Amid Pandemic

April 1, 2021 Philadelphia Neighborhoods

There might be less people in the streets this year in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, but the community still found ways to celebrate the Lunar New Year in February amid the pandemic and the anti-Asian discrimination that

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