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Advocates say immigrant families are upset, angry, sad, but most of all afraid of being torn apart from their families after the DAPA/DACA block was upheld.

The residence was named for the Blessed Oscar Romero, an Archbishop from San Salvador, who suffered martyrdom amid his efforts to fight for social justice and defend the rights of the poor and marginalized in his home country.

“South Philly Barbacoa ” uses their restaurant as a platform to raise awareness on undocumented workers’ rights.

Mayor Jim Kenney and the Office of Immigrant Affairs (OIA) celebrated the four-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) at City Hall Wednesday afternoon.

The event, held in collaboration with Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), included a traditional cake cutting with a military sabre in honor of the Army’s 241st birthday and in honor of Flag Day.

Almost half of the 50 Orlando mass shooting victims were Latino

Lantern festivals are traditional Chinese celebrations that mark the end of Chinese New Year celebrations and this year, as part of the Franklin Square's 10th anniversary, Historic Philadelphia celebrated the first-ever Chinese Lantern Festival in Philadelphia.

Cities around the world held vigils in honor of the shooting victims, of Sunday’s tragic shooting massacre at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. At the mass shooting, at least 50 people were killed and 53 were injured. Omar Mateen, 29, the person identified as the shooter, is a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent. Mateen was killed in a firefight with police after taking hostages at the club.

Helen Chavez, widow of the civil rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez, died yesterday at the age of 88 at a Hospital in Bakersfield.

At 74, boxing legend Muhammad Ali died yesterday at a Phoenix-area hospital.

The idea is to engage and assess the individuals and families living in the streets.

The program will provide a framework for agencies to use as they begin to comply with new city charter change established last year.

The former executive director of the East Division Crime Victims Services is accused of misusing more than $15K in public grant money.

On May 14, Muniz will receive his undergraduate and masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Alongside fellow student Sade Oba, Muniz won the 2016 President's Innovation Prize, awarded by the institution.

In 2014, 60 percent of U.S. Latinos were under the age of 33, according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center.

His appearance at Temple University brought out a crowd of over 10,200 people and forced an overflow crowd at the nearby volleyball court.

I recently walked by the house Gabriel García Márquez owned and used to stay at in Cartagena, Colombia, and I couldn’t wait to get to the keyboard to tell a personal story about this maestro of good literature and even better journalism.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Richard Ross will hold a town hall styled meeting this month focused on the issues of "stop and frisk".

Only the best is good enough,” Johan Cruyff wrote in his weekly column in “De Telegraaf” at the end of last year, when he had no idea death was going to ambush him this week in Barcelona, Spain.

The city is planning a city-wide soccer tournament where the city's different cultures will be represented on the field. The mission: to unite the immigrant communities through "The Beautiful Game."