AS A MEMBER organization in a coalition called the Campaign To Take Back Vacant Land, the Women's Community [...]
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MIMIC: Ex-offenders mentoring boys of color
IT SEEMS so long ago now, the life of drug dealing, violence and retaliation that Edwin Desamour [...]
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Questions on the Edward Snowden leaks
THE EDWARD SNOWDEN leaks came with claims of patriotism, but when I look at Snowden, it's hard [...]
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Demolition Spurs Gentrification in Philadelphia
WHEN COLUMBIA Avenue was Jump Street, and Ridge Avenue was a vital commercial artery that snaked through [...]
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Why we must vote
PHILADELPHIA IS IN TROUBLE. Not because of toxic political infighting that pits one neighborhood against another, but [...]
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Purse snatch murders
I REMEMBER purse snatchings. For a time in the 1980s, they were the crime of choice in [...]
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Communities must have voice on Land Bank
WHEN DEVELOPMENT proponents speak of the Philadelphia Land Bank as a step toward eliminating the city’s 40,000 [...]
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One nation divided by race
AS I WATCHED President Obama deliver his State of the Union address, I was drawn to the [...]
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On hold: The long wait for healthcare
I'VE OFTEN wondered if the Affordable Care Act’s opponents have seen my reality: A youthful cousin rendered helpless by [...]
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Latinos vs Blacks?
THE LATINO AND AFRICAN AMERICAN communities have much in common, but beneath their shared struggles and interconnected [...]
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The Big Stories of 2013
FOR PHILADELPHIA, 2013 was filled with crushing lows and euphoric highs, but the biggest stories shaped us, [...]
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