Topic: Latino Community

While Covid-19 has forced the closure of many after-school programs, Photography Without Borders continues to empower North Philly youth with cameras, connections—and confidence. And now, the students’ work has gone national.

Dining around the world on the “Ethnic Food Tour” of North 5th Street, where revitalization means something unexpected

The South Philly artist activist works to empower immigrants and galvanize the public and lawmakers into action through compassion

HBO made a documentary highlighting Puentes de Salud, a vital, volunteer-run Philly health clinic for immigrants

Philly’s Poet Laureate invites the city of many to celebrate the many in the city

In the last of a series on Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, a family missing home finds a new family in Philly

In another of a series on Puerto Rican evacuees, the hurricane offers a transgender woman a better chance to be her true self

Hurricane Maria has created a hidden evacuee crisis in Philadelphia. A Puerto Rican writer living here launches a project with The Citizen to tell the stories of those forced to flee

Are bilingual immersion programs, like at South Philly’s Southwark, a way to save city schools?