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U.S. Senator Pat Toomey announces a bipartisan plan to promote new gun control measures. Congressional candidates in Pennsylvania struggl ...

This is a first step towards creating the long-term recovery strategy that city officials and community advocates have struggled to create in the five months since the storm.

Smoke will be visible today in the Jersey Shore region as firefighters conduct numerous prescribed burns.

A new study that builds on the Kerner Report's work was released this week.

Some University of Pennsylvania students studying African-American history are zooming in on the era when South Street was the heart of Philadelphia's black community.

It’s the young people who are creating the movements.

A lot of black people are in a space where we have the spirit, the soul, and all that it takes to override oppression, but it means nothing if we don’t believe it.

Black people have always had to project themselves into the future because of the reality of their present. Even today, it takes some cognitive dissonance not to be enraged.

I am an educator because I choose to invest in the future of blackness.

Dick's Sporting Goods has announced it is immediately ending its sales of assault-style rifles and requiring all customers to be older than 21 to buy a firearm at its stores.

Cherry Hill East students demanded answers from the board of education, called for increased school safety measures and supported Locke.

Ubiñas, a longtime commentator on gun violence in Philadelphia, read her column, "Everyday gun violence must be part of gun control reckoning," on NewsWorks Tonight.

Dr. Eugenia South, Assistant Professor at the Penn Department of Emergency Medicine, discusses a recent study ...

James can opt out of his contract with Cleveland following this season and the superstar can hit the free-agency market.

I sometimes wish I could stop talking about race, just for a day. It gets exhausting. I shouldn’t have to defend my race on a daily basis.