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Applications open next month for $145 million in grants for small businesses, with a significant change by lawmakers intended to make it more accessible to people of color.

Teenagers were “the muscle” behind Cecil B. Moore’s historic protest outside Girard College in 1965. The school will soon have a mural depicting them.

For many, the lanes now known as Our Town Alley were part of growing up and family gatherings. The fatal shooting there last weekend was a shock.

In a disconnected world, principals find themselves fighting harder to keep their tenuous ties to families on the fringe.

Neighborhood leader Logan Herring says the two recently-installed units are a welcome and needed addition to a community he considers a food desert.

Keisha Scovens sees the Delaware River Watershed as an inclusive space for families of color to engage, learn, understand that flowing connection.

The Syria attack did not appear to signal an intention to widen U.S. military involvement in the region but rather to demonstrate a will to defend U.S. troops in Iraq.

It will force Democrats to make politically painful choices about what to do next on the federal minimum wage, which has long caused internal party rifts.

Former Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s explanation for the issues did not match previous reporting by Spotlight PA.

The $2 billion rail line would connect KOP to University City and Center City, creating a trifecta of the largest employment hubs in the region.

Because of supply issues, the county has administered more than 18,400 first doses and more than 9,000 second doses to date.

The weeks-long conflict between the School District of Philadelphia and its teachers union is said to be nearing a conclusion.

The Equality Act amends existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identification as protected characteristics.

Residents of dozens of suburban ZIP codes are being vaccinated using city supply at rates almost four times that of the least vaccinated areas of Philadelphia.

Drivers in and around Wilmington will face plenty of backups, but that pales to the disruption the highway caused in city neighborhoods when it was first built.