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Traditionally, you are supposed to learn from your older siblings. However, sometimes, learning goes in the other direction.

Before Women Against Abuse was founded over 40 years ago, victims of violent relationships across Philadelphia suffered in silence. Domes ...

At a Saturday afternoon ceremony in West Philadelphia, officials will unveil a state historical marker detailing the 1985 MOVE bombing, o ...

Since 1972 Philadelphia has been celebrating gay pride and the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots with a parade, but for many young ...

I grew up thinking that I wasn't allowed to love or praise God precisely because I am gay. Yet, God kept appearing in my life.

I'd graduated from high school in a small town two hours north of New York City, and had decided that musical theater was my passion. It wasn't.

Something about crazy drunk Omar being dead. On a friend’s facebook page. That’s how I got the news last week. That’s one of the ug ...

When South Philadelphia residents Lois Fernandez and Ruth Arthur launched the Odunde festival 42 years ago, the celebration took place wi ...

It looks like 2017 is the year of the roller coaster at the Jersey shore. A new coaster that has changed Ocean City’s skyline is ...

“It is revolting to me that Temple would rather use their money to gentrify a historically black area than to lift them up,” proclaimed a Temple student.

Smoking marijuana impacts school performance – that’s what a large, long-term study finds. It was done by researchers at the Universi ...

Lately, new businesses have been rapidly appearing on West Philly’s Baltimore Avenue. Fresh facades and signs seem to be popping up ove ...

Hearing the word NO is better than getting no answer. And even unkind comments are better for well-being than being ignored by other peop ...

A nightmare showed up to remind me that this is our time for struggle, and my voice is priceless. And silence won't make my dream come true. It has always been now.

It took me years to talk about the racism perpetuated by my father in public settings. I was ashamed and embarrassed by him most of my early life.