Questlove has teamed up with the University of the Arts to launch a scholarship program for emerging creatives.
101-year-old Merrill Pittman Cooper recently received an honorary diploma.
On Monday, the city launched The Violence Prevention Hotline, a 24 hours hotline staffed with dozens of trauma-informed "resource navigators" who will be on call to respond to residents impacted or concerned about issues of gun violence.
A statue commemorating the life and legacy of trailblazing abolitionist Harriet Tubman was unveiled at Philadelphia’s City Hall.
Three Sharon Hill police officers have been charged with the death of 8-year-old girl Fanta Bility,
Meek Mill, Kevin Hart and Michael Rubin will donate $15 million to support underserved students at Philadelphia schools.
The recent deadly fires in the Bronx and Philadelphia have placed a spotlight on racial and economic disparities in urban housing and mounting fire-prone risks caused by them.
A child playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree may have caused this week's deadly fire at a rowhouse in Philadelphia that killed 12 people, including eight children, according to a search warrant for the property.
Meek Mill and the REFORM Alliance hosted an event to support youth impacted by parental incarceration.
Philadelphia has taken steps to ban its police officers from initiating traffic stops for minor infractions, a move that should prompt a collective sigh of relief for Black drivers, in particular, who are disproportionately targeted for such moving violations.
8-year-old Fanta Bility was shot and killed outside a suburban Philadelphia high school football game in Sharon Hill last month. Now investigators believe "with certainty" Sharon Hill police officers fired the gunshots that killed her. The DA is seeking a grand jury.
Young and her attorneys maintain that the post was a part of the FOP’s propaganda war against the movement that has swept the country over the past year.Â
