Voice: Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

With Concrete Cowboy premiering on Netflix this week, Neighborhood Film Company’s Ricky Staub and local actor/activist OG Law check in about telling an authentic Black story, saving Philly’s urban riders—and having Idris Elba on your side

A mass shooting in Georgia put Asian Americans on even higher alert after a year of increased racial incidents. Here’s how you can help.

A Wharton MBA for Executives candidate has launched a site to help Americans find open vaccine appointments. Because we need all the help we can get

The city has finally started planning for ways to help students make up for pandemic-related learning loss. But do we really want to just get back to normal?

Mural Arts’ participatory quilting project invites all of us to imagine—and create—a city budget that reflects who we want to be

More than 30 cities, including ours, have signed on to give unrestricted cash payments to some residents this year. Is this a progressive fad or the way to really fix what ails us?

A volunteer team of women scientists, many from Philly, launched Dear Pandemic last year to spread real and clear information about Covid-19. They now speak to 1 million people a month.

Our Drexel class on rewriting Philly’s constitution last year produced dozens of ideas. Here are some of the best for changing the relationship between government and the governed.

Do one thing a week that makes you a better citizen of your city. Here, some ideas to get you started

A compendium of the things we cared about in a super crappy year