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The Committee of Seventy is a nonprofit organization that works to drive up civic engagement in the city of Philadelphia. One of the ways it does this is allocating resources to educate people on upcoming

LGBTQ families and allies were welcomed by rainbow balloon arches, a live band, and tables filled with art and food that took over the Lovett Memorial Library’s lawn in honor of Pride Month on Saturday

The entire conference wing of The Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District Hotel smelled like books — notebooks, paperbacks, hardcovers, and short stories. Books for sale on tables, books being written in corners with cups of coffee,

The Fishtown Festivale, held Saturday, June 8, billed itself as a place for old and young to have a great time with family and friends. The event featured food, beverages, clothes, art, street performances and

Justin Deutsch’s classroom is filled with an array of tools: about a half-dozen cameras, iMacs, a recording studio, and a couple of green screens. He uses these to teach students how to create multimedia projects,

Originally a group of villages surrounding the falls of the Schuylkill River, East Falls flourished as a neighborhood when Philadelphia began to industrialize in the early nineteenth century. The river was an important resource, and

When Hakim Hopkins was sent to juvenile detention in New Jersey at age 14, his mother sent him the book Native Son by Richard Wright. “I became an avid reader,” Hopkins said. “That was the