https://vimeo.com/18392176] A small, family-run establishment, the Port Richmond Pharmacy works hard to provide community members with quality care but also tries to make the people of this diverse area feel they are at home when [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391944] Taller Puertorriqueño operates out of a skinny building in the heart of Fairhill’s typically buzzing Fifth Street, surrounded by various food stops, barbershops, apartment buildings and laundromats standard in urban neighborhoods. But Taller looks [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391677] The innocent chatter of a group of elementary age children spills out of a colorful room filled with bookshelves and play mats. Dressed in smocks and wielding paintbrushes, they splash colors on to blank [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391640] On Ash Wednesday night, snow did not stop a group of deaf and hearing-impaired from worshiping together at the Advocate St. Stephens Methodist Church at 5213 Germantown Ave. The evening began with a meal. [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391548] Many blocks in Southwest Philadelphia are lined with ethnic grocery stores, fast food chains, shopping complexes, beauty and hair supply stores and homes. What the average person sometimes overlooks when exploring this neighborhood is [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18392295] “We knew not to go to Eighth Street because of the shootings. We knew not to go to 12th Street because of the drug war.” This was how Sharif Street, lawyer and son of [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18395048] As the Jewish tradition teaches, “kol avarim zeh lazeh,” or “we are all responsible for each other.” At Kol Tzedek, the Reconstructionist Synagogue in West Philadelphia, a Jewish community was built on the foundation [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18392381] The fast-paced notes of a jazz tune can be heard down the halls of the Clef Club, as senior and junior ensembles practice their skills. Drums pounding, saxophones dragging low notes and trumpets blare [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18392191] Eleven years ago, Rev. Roger Riggins pondered what to make of all the extra space in the building that houses the Word of Life Worship Center in Allegheny West. “I was standing there one [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393037] When Stephen Phillips saw a group of teens brutally beating Eddie Polec to death from his doorstep and no police responded to his 911 calls for help, he and a group of community members [continue reading…]
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