Social Issues

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo John Jones clears his throat and leans into a small microphone. “B 61,” he calls out. Everyone’s eyes in the room

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Factories and textile mills line the neighborhood’s streets. The owner of a local restaurant runs down the street to fill up

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Frank Peterson interacts with patrons of the Free Library System on a daily basis. Peterson, the head of the newspapers and

According to a recent National Telecommunications and Information Administration report, 40 percent of Americans do not have broadband access. In Philadelphia, that number is slightly higher–48 percent, according to the Philadelphia Division of Technology. The

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo In mid-September, the Freedom Rings Sustainable Broadband Adoption Partnership, a coalition of non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, private businesses and

https://vimeo.com/18637306] Ten years ago, West Girard Avenue looked like a completely different street. What used to be a sidewalk littered with vacant storefronts is now a budding commercial corridor where new businesses are cropping up

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo “I call this particular site here ‘one stop,’” Lenora Jackson-Evans beams from her seat at the Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation’s

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo For six years, Casino-Free Philadelphia’s mission has been to stop casinos from coming to Philadelphia, bankrupt any that do and reclaim