Open Door Baptist Church, located at 1632 N. 26th St., celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Norma Lodase has been working at the Kenneth Cole store in Franklin Mills Mall for about a year and has noticed quite a difference in the number of customers who have been coming in and out of the store. Although this mall in Philadelphia is still considered a tourist spot as one of the largest malls in Pennsylvania other than King of Prussia, Lodase still worries about …

If you ask Philadelphians what one person embodies the personality of their city, you might be surprised that the answer is a fictional character.

Rocky Balboa, Philadelphia’s boxing hero, mirrors the personality of the city: a blue-collar, lunch-pail, no-nonsense town where hard work will gain you the utmost respect.

Those same characteristics are the exactly qualities that will earn you respect in the world of boxing. In a lifestyle full of grueling training regiments, long hours in stuffy gyms, and repeatedly getting hit, the sport referred to as “the …

Four years ago, Evelyn Martinez, a resident of Philadelphia public housing, was raising three children in the dangerous, drug-infested community around 16th Street and Erie Avenue . The house was in poor condition and space was so limited that Martinez was forced to park on the sidewalk.

Now, when returning to her new home, Martinez parks in her private driveway, lets her children run into the family’s spacious backyard and enters …

I provided Skyler and Christina with disposable cameras to capture images of their neighborhoods. The purpose of this activity was for them to portray the most significant aspects of their lives.
Skyler Baker
A self-proclaimed “bookworm,” Skyler Baker is an honor roll student at Paul Lawrence Dunbar School. He is 12 years old and a familiar face at the R.W. Brown Community Center in North Philadelphia….

At first glance, Villa looks like just another urban retail store on the block. However, three simple words differentiate this hip hop apparel store from its counterparts.  “Join the Movement” is the slogan that can be seen at every Villa store location.
The phrase is inteded to stir up some curiosity for customers to take a peak.
One step into Villa and you are met by the booming sounds of hip hop spun on the a turntable by a live disk jockey and some pretty savvy customer service. Alexis …