Community Events

Gun violence dropped dramatically after West Philly’s House of Umoja brokered a ceasefire in 1974. The organization’s matriarch says it’s time for a new treaty.

Hundreds of Camden residents will be able to pick up free items at a pop-up community store at The Neighborhood Center.

It’s that season again — and you have options.

After a pandemic hiatus in 2021 and a 2020 parade marred by some members in blackface, Mummers Parade organizers are promising an event “welcoming to all.”

Doylestown had its first annual Diwali event at Burpee Park this Sunday. Hosted by Desis of Doylestown and Youth4Unity, community members came out for the festival of lights.

A Philadelphia-based group is selling holiday pies to help those in need have a healthy gourmet meal this Thanksgiving.

A multicultural parade will begin Philadelphia’s first in-person holiday season since COVID.

Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is returning to a live event after going virtual last year.

Isis, a Delaware College of Art & Design graduate and co-founder of KLIK photography collective, has used the power of art to tell the stories of Black women.

Community members took part in a silent march in Delco Sunday afternoon, calling for justice for Fanta Bility, the 8-year-old girl fatally shot by Sharon Hill police.

The people of Philadelphia have voted and the winner is: John's Roast Pork in South Philadelphia.

Riverfront North Partnership and Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership team up to plant 200 trees along Pennypack Creek, give 150 more away.

When the Philadelphia Open Studios Tour kicks off this weekend, one of its largest and most popular stops will reopen to visitors for the first time in six years.

Philabundance is partnering with a Cherry Hill restaurant to pack up fresh meals that will give Afghan evacuees a taste of home in our area.