POLITICS - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

On boarded up Chestnut Hill storefronts, store owner writes messages of hope

Chestnut Hill businesses, many leasing from Richard Snowden/Bowman Properties, had their storefronts boarded up in the wake of looting elsehwere in the city.

June 3, 2020

ART Books Children

Comrade Pineapple, Soviet Great-Granddaughter

Julia Alekseyeva emigrated to the United States from Russia when she was four years old. Her relationship with most members of her family was fraught. But her great-grandmother, Lola, reflected…

December 7, 2019

POLITICS

Before municipal election, voters more focused on national issues

Before Montgomery County and Philadelphia, PA municipal elections, voters generally were more focused on the upcoming national election

October 25, 2019

Current Affairs POLITICS protest

Why trust Philadelphia’s new voting machines?

Pa Legislator agrees with elections activist that new voting machines offer no assurance of accuracy or integrity

September 12, 2019

Current Affairs POLITICS

Neighbors react to presidential candidates debates

When your correspondent gauged reaction to the democratic party Presidential debates, most said they hadn't watched it, some waiting to the field to thin, and among the three who had watched, one was an ardent Joe Biden supporter and the two others were impressed by Kamala Harris

June 29, 2019

African-American Education ENTERTAINMENT

Germantown celebrates Juneteenth freedom from slavery

At Philadelphia's Juneteenth celebration in Germantown, Iraina Salaam performs a libation ceremony in honor of African ancestors as members and Boy Scout Troop 1719 and the Tyehimba drum group also take part in the street festival celebration

June 16, 2019

ART Current Affairs POLITICS

Kushner envies Zuckerberg’s Facebook Data – painted

Colleen Quinn's paintings depict Kushner, Zuckerberg, Bannon, Putin and other political figures haunting her dreams.

October 1, 2018

ART BUILDINGS INTERNATIONAL

Exiled Romanian bronze sculptor mounts outdoor show at Woodmere

Exiled Romanian artist mounts monumental, figurative bronze sculptures at Woodmere Art Museum

September 2, 2018

African-American EVENTS POLITICS

Turning Pennsylvania Blue

Neighbors gather at a coffee shop in Mount Airy, Philadelphia to write personalized postcards to voters as part of the "Turn PA Blue" effort to get Democratic Party candidates elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature in the fall 2018 midterm elections

August 8, 2018

African-American Current Affairs Education

Palestine Teach-In draws hundreds in Philly

From the Facebook Event Page "Join us on June 30 for our Palestine teach-in! This event brings together an amazing group of scholars, organizers, activists, and teachers for a day…

July 1, 2018