Top-down urban planning and redevelopment doesn’t just disrupt maps and economies. Remaking Black communities like North ...

In 1965, hundreds of Freedom Fighters spent day and night walking around the wall that surrounded Girard College demanding ...

In the 1920s, the organ played a role in a celebration of Black achievement. With the teaching of that history now under ...

John Schriffen grew up in a family of civil rights activists. His grandfather, Alphonso Deal, was the NAACP president of ...

One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...

A residential neighborhood in North Philadelphia resembled a war zone after a medical jet carrying six passengers and crew ...

A Visit Philadelphia social media campaign launching Feb. 1 highlights Black family-owned businesses ... The businesses include North Philadelphia's Paul Beale's Flowers; Vera Doyle, a boutique ...

Cecil Bassett Moore was a Black American activist, lawyer and politician during the civil rights movement who operated mostly in Philadelphia. He was known for his more aggressive push for change and ...

Investigators have recovered the voice recorder from the cockpit of the medical transport jet that crashed shortly after takeoff near a Philadelphia ... commonly called a black box, was located ...

The black box has been recovered from the medical ... of life earlier this evening as a result of the plane crash in North East Philadelphia,” the team said in a social media statement.

The Army identified the third soldier on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the midair crash over the Potomac River ...