Many years ago, Tanisha Clanton might have seemed like one of the countless children in Philadelphia facing a bleak future. Her family life was marked...
Dionne Stallworth insists that you can’t fully understand her if you don’t understand her attraction to superheroes. Her posters of Batman, Wonder...
On the door to her West Philadelphia apartment, Zarah Teachy has a sign that reads “I’m a Miracle.” Her story would bear that out. Zarah first met...
It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Hyacinth King. As a young person, she had a solid path ahead of her: She went from a private elite high school...
Jon Bon Jovi’s hit tune “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?” took on new meaning Tuesday as the rock star cut the ribbon on a namesake housing development...
There was a soul-stirring celebration today in North Philadelphia as Project HOME cut the ribbon on the $16 million affordable housing project built...
Joan Dawson McConnon remembers the building down the street. “Well, 1515 Fairmount was a building we bought down the street in 1990 and we spent five...