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Julius Rodriguez was born and has spent a majority of his time in Philadelphia. Rodriguez was introduced to boxing at a young age by his mother, he explained how boxing defined him as an athlete.

Kids played basketball outside of the empty Childs Elementary School. A group of young boys shoot a basketball into an aging hoop at the end of a large asphalt school yard. Behind them is the shell of ...

Paul Santoleri is a professional artist who has been working as a muralist in collaboration with Mural Arts Philadelphia for over 30 years. He has produced murals all over Philadelphia, including ...

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Weeds burst through cracked sidewalks and ivy sprawls up telephone poles. Rubble of what once held homes together – fiberboard, insulation and brick – forms small mountains at the streets’ edges.

Muralists across the Philadelphia area go unrecognized for their workday in and day out. Society tends to overlook the meanings behind the murals they pass each day. Joseph Dougherty, a Dougherty ...

memorabilia and fairy lights. There are also two bars on the opposite ends, lined with ruby red padding and old-school cash registers. It’s a small and colorful place with something always going on, ...

Kensington as part of Mayor Cherelle Parker’s initiative to transform Kensington. Between the closure of several homeless shelters and the shuttering of one of the city’s largest food bank programs, ...

After the sanitation trucks rumble down South Philadelphia streets, they usually leave behind a trail of crushed water bottles, debris tattered cardboard boxes, paper products, empty ripped chip bags, ...

The Fairmount Park Conservancy, one of the leading nonprofits for outdoor areas in Philadelphia, has been around for decades. After evolving from The Commission, which was created in 1867, and The ...