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While most of the events were virtual, people still gathered for the country’s largest MLK Day of Service event at Girard College in Philly for COVID tests and vaccinations.

Three sisters — Rosalee McDonald, Virginia Thomas, and Quinsha White — and nine of their children died in the blaze.

In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined fellow civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore to protest the segregation of Girard College in Philadelphia.

In her first solo exhibit at a community art gallery in Camden, Renata Merrill shares the quilts that helped bring her "back to health."

You can count the city’s statues of women in history on one hand.

The pilot credited for a miraculous crash landing in Drexel Hill was released from the hospital Sunday to a hero's welcome of first responders and family members.

Temple University will host funeral services for the 12 victims of the Fairmount rowhouse fire. The families have asked everyone in attendance to wear white.

Reading Terminal Market’s model for supporting entrepreneurs of color could ensure Black and brown entrepreneurs benefit from Biden’s infrastructure act.

Two organizations shared a treasure chest of literary work from the shuttered Camden Free Public Library.

Authorities have identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours.

Paired up, with one expert helping them along, the novices built the little blue book houses starting from a sketch. It’s the program’s sixth year.

Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting in East Mount Airy that left a 17-year-old girl dead Friday night.

A group organized a virtual book drive so the community can buy titles the district has removed or has plans to remove from school libraries and lessons.

Officials say a large chemical fire is burning in northern New Jersey with smoke so heavy it was detected on weather radar and smelled in nearby New York City.

Wilmington residents forced from their homes by Hurricane Ida met with state agencies and local nonprofits to say they still haven’t received much help.