Linn Washington Jr.

The scourge of Stop&Go’s has existed for far too long in far too many Philly communities.

On a sunny bright but bitter cold day when many around Philly were joyously focused on the bustle of preparations for the holiday season some people gathered inside a Center City church for a solemn remembrance.

The searing slap of violence is something Roz Pichardo knows on many painful levels.

Far too little attention lands on aspects of the robbery for the rich tax measure that President Trump and his Republican confederates on Capitol Hill are ram rodding into existence…aspects with devastating impacts on thousands of Philadelphians, particularly Puerto Ricans.

The righteous attention given the recent 50^th Anniversary of the despicable November 1967 Philadelphia police assault on school students peacefully protesting outside then School District headquarters on the Franklin Parkway renews interest in another grave injustice near that site also born from police brutality.

For Philadelphia filmmaker Gilberto Gonzales the mere mention of the name Donald Trump unleashes an inferno of verbal fire citing failures of the President coast to coast on issues of import to Latinos from Trump’s readiness to squander millions on building that border wall to Trump’s “mishandling” of recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.

On a sunny Friday afternoon 50-years ago this week two monumental events occurred in Philadelphia, one distinctive, the other despicable.

Plenty of poignant sights filled the eyes of Michael Bastone as he’s driven all over Puerto Rico during the past few weeks delivering supplies to desperately needy people as a volunteer for the Red Cross.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania compiles a lot of data on many things related to its administrative functioning and the operations of courts in each of the Keystone State’s 67-counties.

Convincing evidence of the profound power of movies is evident every day in Philadelphia.

The August arrest of Brandon Templin for throwing eggs on the statute of Frank Rizzo dispelled a myth that is comforting for some: opposition to that monument honoring Philadelphia’s controversial former mayor is just a ‘black thing.’

The avalanche of news last week from that vile rampage in Las Vegas to more repugnant ooze from President Trump – like his unseemly antics in hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico – buried a disturbing local news item about a prejudice-stained police practice in Philadelphia.

Wyoming is over 1,700-miles from the neighborhood around 5^th & Lehigh in North Philadelphia where Wanda Benvenutti grew up.