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The YIMBYS Have Won. San Francisco pro-housing activist and Philly native Sonja Trauss will return to her hometown on November 15 to herald a solution to our housing crisis. Here, she reflects on how to avoid the pitfalls of Bay Area unaffordability. By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy.
Your Civic Engagement Toolkit for Philadelphia
Aug 21, 2024 · This is the place for you. Below, our comprehensive civic engagement toolkit offers a host of ways to get involved in your community and city, so you can do your part to make your city a better, fairer and more welcoming place for everyone. Whether you’re a seasoned activist or new to the ins-and-outs of our ever-changing political and social ...
How is Cherelle Parker Doing? An Assessment Nine Months In
Sep. 27, 2024. “She’s a great show horse,” one local politico told me last week, speaking of our mayor’s first nine eventful months in office. He meant it as a compliment. After eight years of grumpy stasis, there’s a new energy in local government. In her public-facing role, at least, Cherelle Parker has been a standout mayor.
Philadelphia Furniture Bank Provides Free Furnishings to Those in …
Mar 10, 2017 · Similarly, the total estimated value of the furniture given to the group grew by nearly $130,000 in that year. All of these numbers, according to the Furniture Bank, are set to trend up further in 2017. That’s a sign of both progress and of growing need. Like many non-profits that are scaling up, the Furniture Bank is severely understaffed.
Alan Horwitz: 76ers Mega Fan Behind Philly Youth Basketball
Jan 12, 2024 · When the $38 million state-of-the-art Philly Youth Basketball facility opens next week, it will be thanks to an 80-year-old, prank-pulling, courtside-sitting cult figure. And then there’s the time he was tossed from an NBA game…. BY Larry Platt. Jan. 12, 2024. Just before the pandemic, I took a friend’s son to a Sixers game.
28 amazing Black Philadelphians who changed the world
Feb 1, 2022 · NATHAN FRANCIS MOSSELL. Physician. (July 27, 1856 – October 27, 1946) Nathan Francis Mossell was a pioneer physician who established the first Black private hospital in Philadelphia, the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, that both treated African Americans and trained Black nurses and doctors.
Free and Low Cost Mental Health Services in Philadelphia
Jul 25, 2023 · Based at the University of Pennsylvania, the Cohen Clinic provides mental health care for veterans and military members at no cost and with no long waits. 3535 Market Street, (844) 573-3146; (215) 898-1699. Crisis line: (800) 273-8255. Cost: Free for veterans and members of the military.
Kensington’s Trauma Porn Problem - The Philadelphia Citizen
Dec 16, 2022 · Kensington has become ground zero for trauma porn in America. Even the most venerated media outlets, such as the New York Times, have been accused of peddling poverty porn. Over the past few years, the phenomenon has spiraled out of control, as independent social media videographers — many of whom consider themselves journalists — come to ...
HOW TO REALLY RUN A CITY PODCAST - The Philadelphia Citizen
Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt talk about what it really takes to get sh*t done in cities on The Citizen’s newest podcast, How to Really Run a City.New episodes, with a special guest joining, each month. To learn more, read Platt’s article on the birth of the podcast. ...
Black Men Heal delivers mental health to Black men in Philly and …
May 16, 2022 · Black Men Heal is on a mission. At the core of this mission — “to provide access to mental health treatment … to men of color” — is a potent premise: “Healed men heal men.”. Maybe this simple slogan will take on the conventional energy of its more negative predecessor, the almost cliché idea that “Hurt people hurt people.”.