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Northwest Philadelphia: A Family Affair at Pointe Flex Dance Studio

June 6, 2014

It’s a little after 5:30 on a Friday evening, and the teens are anxiously waiting for ballet class. Before lacing up their pointe shoes, they run through an intense warm-up routine, meticulously extending their limbs

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Fishtown: Recreation Center Brings Generations Together

May 20, 2014

The Fishtown Recreation Center represents how a community can be sustained not only through cleanup efforts, but through the ongoing commitment from community members across multiple generations. This 1.4-acre facility welcomes new members to utilize

Arts and Entertainment

Latino Philadelphia: 5 People Making a Difference

May 16, 2014 Neil D. Ortiz

Father Bruce Lewandowski (above), Vicar for Cultural Ministries, Archdiocese of Philadelphia. For the past three years Father Bruce Lewandowski has overseen the Office for Hispanic Catholics as the Vicar for Cultural Ministries at the Archdiocese

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Southwest Philadelphia: Urban Farms Work to Take Back the Land

May 14, 2014

https://vimeo.com/92712823] Urban farms all over Philadelphia indicate that many people in the city seek control over the produce and livestock they eat. The concept behind this control is food sovereignty, which asserts that local communities

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Southwest Philadelphia: Providing Healthy Alternatives to Food at Corner Stores

May 14, 2014

https://vimeo.com/92712824] Corner stores aren’t the best venues to purchase healthy food in Philadelphia, partly due to the combination of what the stores stock and what the customers choose to purchase. According to a 2010-12 study on

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Fishtown’s BAIT Creates Space for Recent Art School Graduates

May 13, 2014

During the last year of her undergraduate career at Tyler School of Art, Kate Speidel imagined her own artist’s space as an idea for a class assignment to compose a grant. “It was a very

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Overbrook: Environmental Arts Center Helps Educate the Neighborhood

May 12, 2014

Jerome Shabazz opened the Environmental & Arts Education Center in 2006. This was when he witnessed the positive effect hands-on experiences had on students of the Overbrook community. Interacting first with the school district, Shabazz

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Nicetown: Parents, Teachers Protest at School District

May 8, 2014

In the debate about whether to turn over Edward T. Steel Elementary School to the administration of Mastery Charter Schools, the voices for the current leadership at Steel have been loud and clear. They are

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Nicetown: Parents Vote on the Future of Edward T. Steel Elementary School

May 6, 2014

https://vimeo.com/93909422] It was an intense and emotional journey leading up to the results that would help decide the fate of Edward T. Steel Elementary School in Nicetown. It would soon be decided if parents and the

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Cobbs Creek: Philadelphia 300 Men Assembly Seeks Solutions to Crime

May 6, 2014

The first town hall meeting was called together by the Philadelphia 300 Men Assembly, co-founded by Donnell Regusters and Tommy Joshua. The purpose of this meeting was to hear the issues the community is dealing

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