Representative Dwight Evans News Today

Representative Dwight Evans took part in a roundtable discussion Monday with healthcare experts and community leaders focused on solutions to lower obesity rates in the city.

Four members of Congress pushed for the Victim Act, a bill that would set up a one billion dollar grant program in the U.S. Department of Justice to help police solve cases and support victims.

Facing Deportation, They Fled to the Safety of a Church. Now They Are Free. A Jamaican couple spent nearly two and a half years inside Philadelphia churches, isolated even further by the pandemic. This month, U.S. immigration officials relented. Clive and Oneita Thompson fled gang violence in Jamaica in 2004 and sought asylum in the United States.Credit...Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press Dec. 24, 2020 Hand in hand, Oneita and Clive Thompson danced out of the Tabern...