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The Hatfield House in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the site of an Afrofuturist vision of time travel by the art duo Black Quantum Futurism

Black voters make up a small minority in the “most southern of northern states,” but they want Sen. Joe Manchin III to know that their politics matter.

Preach on: The (Philadelphia) gospel according to the Rev. Luis Cortés Jr. A clash of classes: The Rev. talks gentrification, immigration, education and more Whether viewed through the lens of December 2020’s Philadelphia Award (its sole Hispanic recipient), his national profile (serving in immigrant advisory capacities to the George W. Bush and Barack Obama White Houses)… …or his creation of an Hispanic ecosystem of university and high school classes, and an initiative mixing economic and workforce development, neighborhood revitalization and immigration services (his multi-faceted Es...

Luke Walshe Two drug dealers were jailed for a combined total of nearly seven years for trafficking cocaine. Jordan Harding, 23, of Vermeer Crescent, Newport, and Luke Walshe, 22, of Walford Davies Drive, Newport, were locked up at Cardiff Crown Court. Cocaine and cannabis were found after a search of a car when Outside the court, DC Alistair Frame, the officer in the case, said: “More drugs were later discovered on Harding and the examination of both defendant’s mobile phones revealed their involvement in the supply of cocaine.” Dean Travers A drug dealer who was responsible...

The Black Church is an institution that was forged in crises. Through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the civil rights era, the network of places of worship serving traditionally Black congregations has seen its fair share of traumatic events. In 2016, the Rev. Robert Franklin, former president of Morehouse College, acknowledged as much in a speech on urban ministries: “Disruption is the question, but the radical love ethic of Jesus is the response.” And that was before 2020 delivered the COVID-19 pandemic, the related economic crisis and the global movement for Black Li...