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Black work matters. Race, poverty, and the future of work in Philadelphia are the focus for participants at Thursday’s poverty summit a ...

Despite encroachments by big development projects such as the Vine Street Expressway and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia ...

About 2,000 people rolled out their brightly colored mats on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art this past Sunday for a yoga clas ...

The 76ers organization is defending its decision to become the first NBA team to put a corporate sponsor on its jerseys. A small l ...

With beeping monitors and sky-high anxiety over the well-being of a tiny baby hooked to machines, it doesn’t seem like time spent i ...

Rather than walking across the country, I’d walked into the death of my first self. I ...

The invention of cochlear implants and other technologies have given many deaf and hard-of-hearing adults and children the option to hear ...

The engine of the American economy, in miniature.  In 1790, with American democracy still a work in progress, American capita ...

Less than 50 miles from New York City, tucked into a bucolic corner of New Jersey’s expansive sprawl, stands a 65-acre plot of anci ...

Producer: Karen Smyles The quick rise of 22-year-old twin sisters Nalani & Sarina — from a small town in wes ...

Millions of refugees are trying to escape persecution, torture and death in their homelands, and often endure arduous flights to get to a ...

Do test scores improve when schools provide laptops to every student? A new analysis of data from researchers at Michigan State Universit ...

In many ways, a career change is a leap of faith. Even if you’re dissatisfied with your current job, there’s no way of knowin ...

Since its founding four and a half years ago, PACTforAnimals.org has honored the importance of t ...

LaFaye Gaskins is serving a life sentence for the 1989 murder of Albert Dodson in Philadelphia.  He was convicted despite a l ...