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City Councilmember Gilmore Richardson argues investment in green space is critical to fight climate change — and can help create jobs and reduce violence.

About 100 protesters are in attendance so far for the demonstration organized by Refuse Fascism Philly, with the streets surrounding City Hall being blocked off by police.

NBA players made their strongest statement yet against racial injustice Wednesday.

The Philadelphia Water Department says people facing financial hardships should apply for help, but expect processing delays.

A temporary mural above the front door to Philly’s Municipal Services Building depicts the summer of protests that erupted after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The executive committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of the NAACP voted on Aug. 20 to dissolve itself and yield full control to the national office.

After several months — and a feud with a South Jersey gym — Gov. Phil Murphy said gyms may reopen at the beginning of September; bring your masks.

Protests erupted after police shot Jacob Blake, who now has paralysis from the waist down. Attorney Ben Crump said it would “take a miracle” for Blake to walk again.

Filmmaker Michelle Ortiz produced Las Madres de Berks to share the stories of detained immigrant families and the fight to close down the state’s oldest family prison.

There’s been an unspoken tension since the local NAACP chapter president shared an anti-Semitic meme.

When the commonwealth gets the program running, it’ll be retroactive to Aug. 1.

A white Bedford County man shot into a crowd of about 50 peaceful civil rights marchers who were crossing through Pennsylvania during a pilgrimage from Milwaukee to D.C.

Anger over the shooting spilled into the streets of Kenosha for a second night Monday, with police again firing tear gas at hundreds of protesters.

‘Speaking about consequences being a motivator for them to stop gun violence isn’t enough,’ said one participant in a town hall on Philly’s gun violence epidemic.

For families, a financial freeze is the first fallout from being out of work for months, but the effects can go deeper. There is also “an emotional crisis.”