20 Black-Owned Businesses That Do Good

Shops, cafés, pizza and water ice joints, beauty boutiques, bookstores, and even an auto mechanic whose Black owners are committed to making our city better

By Amber Burns

The Virus and the City: What’s Next for Latin-Owned Businesses?

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director on lessons learned from three U.S. cities about how minority-owned firms can come back stronger from Covid-19

By Bruce Katz, Victoria Orozco, Domenika Lynch and Colin Higgins

The Virus and the City: How To Grow Black Businesses

Post-Covid economic recovery requires providing opportunities for Black businesses to thrive. Drexel’s Metro Finance Director lays out a plan to do that

By Bruce Katz, Kevin Gillen, Ben Preis and Sharon Velasquez

The Virus and the City: What We Know About Black Businesses

Black-owned companies were struggling even before the pandemic. Armed with new data, Drexel’s Metro Finance Director offers a post-Covid game plan

By Bruce Katz, Kevin Gillen, Ben Preis and Victoria Orozco

Your February good (Philadelphia) Citizen calendar

The dates you need to make this year your civic best

By Lauren McCutcheon

The Stakes of the Election: Who Has a Plan to Combat Inequality?

A former mayoral candidate-turned-award-winning documentarian on the most important question of the 2023 Mayor’s race

By Sam Katz

Business for Good: Grant Blvd + Blk Ivy

The B Corps fashion brand loved by Beyoncé is launching a men’s clothing line and a vintage clothing store, Blk Ivy, dedicated to Civil Rights era fashion, music, books— and activism

By Courtney DuChene

The Weird, Hopeful, Dismal, Exciting Year That Was (2022)

Happy to see 2022 in your rear view? Here’s what it means for 2023

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy