Neighborhoods

Isaac Young didn’t always have a passion for basketball. As a 5-foot-10-inch 8th-grader, he simply was not interested. One year and a 6-inch growth spurt later, a basketball coach at Benjamin Franklin High School recognized

It’s the end of spring and heading toward summer. All of the plants are coming into bloom. Everywhere you can see small and large urban gardens throughout the city. All plant life seems to be

When Pastor Earl Palmer heard the calling, he heeded what he proclaims was God’s will. That would eventually evolve into what is now called and recognized as the Brand New Life Christian Center in Germantown.

At 1:25 p.m. Sunday, just five minutes before Zion Cares Ministry services were scheduled to begin, the Rev. Margie Brown still stood in her apron, hugging and greeting the ivory- or white-clad members of the

Never before has a group been named so aptly. The Friends of Sedgley Woods are truly friends in the most sincere sense of the word. “All of us here are good friends and we come

Canaan Baptist is a church on a mission. A congregation of over 1,000. A day care in existence since the 1970s. A ministry that reaches to Africa and beyond. And now the adoption of a

https://vimeo.com/18641514] The yellow brick road in Philadelphia doesn’t lead to Oz. Instead, it leads to the Golden Block in Fairhill, the heart of the city’s Hispanic community on Fifth Street, stretching from Lehigh Avenue to

It is not every day that a police officer can boast that he garners the respect and trust of a community. For Southwest Philadelphia Officer Richard “Butch” Riddick, this is the reputation he has earned