Emily Neil

Jessica Elena Aquino is a Mexican-American artist who draws on a number of influences and aspects of her identity to produce artwork that challenges established categories. 

On May 9, artist Michelle Angela Ortiz hosted a screening of “Las Madres de Berks,” an intimate look at the trauma of family detention. 

Sheriff Sean Kilkenny said that he wants to continue to push for greater diversity in the Sheriff’s Office, increase transparency, and more in what would be his second term in the office.

Through her all-female flamenco dance company and her own choreography and performances, including most recently “La Bolivianita,” Hevia y Vaca embraces the deeply empowering dimensions of the art form.

On Monday, Apr. 8, Philadelphia City Council’s Labor and Civil Service subcommittee held the first formal hearing on domestic workers’ rights and protections.

On display April 5 - April 25 at Gershman Hall, the documentary photographer’s work illuminates the individual stories and faces of those who risk everything to travel to the border.

In the first year of his administration, District Attorney Larry Krasner has fulfilled several of the campaign promises which gained him the support of nearly 75 percent of Philadelphia voters and swept him into office in 2017. But how successful have the changes that Krasner has introduced been in reducing the city's out-sized incarceration rate - and what will be the consequences locally and nationally as he continues in his efforts to reform the criminal justice system?

Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Lost Children Archive” chronicles losses large and small, personal, national, and historical - while serving as proof of the aspects of truth which slip between the cracks in even the most airtight reporting on the arrival of many immigrants from Central America at the southern border.

The state legislator is launching a bid for mayor in the 2019 Democratic primaries, his second run at the position, against incumbent Mayor Jim Kenney.

The Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance, Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, and other elected officials announced on March 14 that the City Council will hold hearings on a proposed Philadelphia Domestic Worker Bill of Rights.

Here are some of the most relevant titles on immigration that should be on your reading list and on your bookshelf.

Colombian-American journalist Silvana Paternostro’s new book on Gabriel García Márquez uses oral histories of friends, acquaintances, admirers, and colleagues of the legendary journalist and author to construct a portrait of the man behind the iconic works of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Love in the Time of Cholera,” and more.

A local worker-led organization is leading the fight to ensure that legal protection is extended to one of the most vulnerable professions in the labor force of Philadelphia - which could become the largest U.S. city to date to pass such legislation.

The world’s largest internet entertainment service platform announced that it had acquired the rights to produce the Latin American classic by Gabriel García Márquez, with executive production by the author’s two sons.

In her new book, Eileen Truax explores how, contrary to popular perception that the question is still up for debate, the U.S. has already “built the wall,” keeping asylum seekers out through the immigration system itself.

Puerto Rico’s own Ricardo Morales leads the way on the clarinet for the Philadelphia Orchestra this weekend as a principal soloist.