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At Mastery Charter School’s Shoemaker campus in West Philly, activism is ingrained in the school culture: 8th graders take a social justice class for heir history requirement.

Graham wants the main beneficiaries to be people like herself, residents who stuck with the neighborhood during its darkest moments.

Students across the country will be participating in a walk-out today to show their solidarity with the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas ...

Penn hosts discussion of Philadelphia rapper's case as emblematic of a system clouded with racial bias.

'It lets ICE know that we’re paying attention here,' says U.S. Rep. Bob Brady of private bill he's sponsoring.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy lays out his first bud ...

A powerful coastal storm that lashed New England Tuesday only grazed the Jersey Shore but dropped moderate snow accumulations in some are ...

If National Geographic's April issue was going to be entirely devoted to the subject of race, the magazine decided it had better take a good hard look at its own history.

Students weigh in on gun violence and the upcoming National School Walkout.

While it may be harder to tell, data suggests white neighborhoods in Philly are actually gentrifying faster than black neighborhoods.

Gentrification has a long history in Philadelphia. We get a local student's take on gun violence. And yet another Pennsylvania coal mine shuts down.

Within a span of several hours Monday morning, two package bombs detonated in separate areas of Austin, Texas, killing one resident and seriously injuring another

A coastal storm will graze New Jersey on Monday night into Tuesday morning

A policy proposal unveiled Sunday evening has Trump renewing his support for arming teachers and other school employees on a volunteer basis.

The reinvention of Society Hill in the 1960s is widely considered one of the first instances of gentrification — although no one called it that at the time.