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Sponsored by the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Association for Nonviolence, the symbolic bell ringing usually attracts up to 500 people.

Martin Luther King, Jr. visited Girard College in wake of demonstrations to integrate the school founded in Philadelphia for white orphan boys.

Last January, the Philadelphia Water Department had more than 300 water main breaks. So far this year, it has responded to only about 40.

A crowd of students surrounds the Native American man, laughing and filming on cell phones.

Hundreds of furloughed federal workers are turning to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank to help make ends meet as the partial federal government shutdown drags on.

For the third year in a row Philadelphia’s streets were flooded with thousands of rally goers supporting a renewed women’s movement.

Founded as a Yiddish-language daily in 1897, the newspaper once known as The Jewish Daily Forward is ending its print operation to "become a digitally focused publisher."

In a multiyear study Comcast Corp., Aramark and Campbell Soup Company all ranked in the top 35 among the Fortune 500 firms for boardroom diversity.

Earlier this week, the standards editor at NBC News sent an email advising the network's staff not to refer to statements made by Rep. Steve King of Iowa as racist.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency Friday afternoon in advance of storm that is set to impact New Jersey this weekend.

Minor tidal flooding is likely in at the Jersey Shore Sunday morning, forecasters say.

North and South America will get the best view of the super "blood moon," as it's known, but Europeans and Africans will also be able to watch (weather permitting).

Latinos make up nearly 15% of Philly's population and form its poorest minority group — 38 percent live in poverty, according to census data.

Interfaith Philadelphia and NewCORE aim to spark conversations about race and faith in the region. There will be three more live events from February through April.

The day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, a lesser known moment in civil rights history was unfolding in southern Georgia.