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Arts and Entertainment

Chestnut Hill: Safety, Community Enhancement are Top Priorities for Business District Executive Director

March 27, 2017Howard Knapp and

Martha Sharkey is the executive director for the Chestnut Hill Business Association and is one of the primary people leading the way in bringing new businesses, programs and community safety projects to the local community. Sharkey,

Business

North Philadelphia: Infrastructure of The Internet Highlights Digital Divide

May 11, 2016Daniel T. Pelligrine and

Just a few feet beneath every Philadelphian exists a web of veins responsible for carrying precious information, like the oxygen carried by our blood, to and from the city.  Just as oxygen is needed by

Technology

Technically Philly: The Passion Behind EvoXLabs

April 21, 2015Paul Klein

After suffering from a spinal cord injury as result of a car accident in 2013, Ather Sharif began his Spinal Cord Injury Blog soon after to motivate people in a similar situation to move forward.

Featured Stories

Plan Philly: Poplar Library Branch Embraces Technology and Social Media

June 10, 2013

https://vimeo.com/67815196] Limited Internet access does not stop East and West Poplar residents from getting online. The 255 daily visitors of the Ramonita G. de Rodriguez Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia are primarily there

Hunting Park

Hunting Park: Library Hotspot Offers Free Internet Access To Local Residents

November 2, 2011

In our current Internet age we often go by the belief that we are all universally plugged into the Web. But for those living in less fortunate neighborhoods this belief does not always hold true.

Center City

Center City: Urban Affairs Coalition Receives Grant to Increase Broadband Access

December 9, 2010

In mid-September, the Freedom Rings Sustainable Broadband Adoption Partnership, a coalition of non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, private businesses and government organizations, was awarded an $11.8 million grant to increase Internet access in Philadelphia.

Center City

Center City: Philadelphia FIGHT Provides Internet Services to HIV/AIDS Community

November 10, 2010

Allison Wolf always had a corporate job. Until 10 years ago, when she came to work for Philadelphia FIGHT’s Critical Path Project. “I was lucky enough to be offered the job here at Philadelphia FIGHT

Recent Posts

  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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  • The crowd during a performance by The DOJD, Claire Brown's band, in a West Philadelphia basement. (Image-Jacob Magaldi)
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  • Inspired by ACT UP, this queer Philly collective is throwing mutual aid parties 
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