In an imaginary world where video game players were only allowed play characters of their own ethnicity, Latinos would be screwed. They could choose between Victor Gonzalez, one of the main thugs of ...

From a stint in the Peace Corps to co-founding ASPIRA, Patricia DeCarlo is no stranger to transforming communities from the inside. But if you ask her how she got there, she’ll tell you it was a ...

Ada Luisa Trillo was born in El Paso Texas and spent much of her youth in Juarez, Mexico. After studying in San Francisco and across Europe, she settled in Philadelphia, but her culture and the areas ...

The Honorable Nelson A. Diaz has been first in many things throughout his career. After turning down job offers in accounting to attend law school at Temple University, he became the first Latino to ...

“Latinos are philanthropic by nature, we have our own social framework to do this. The question is which institution and which way?” said Pedro Ramos, the new president of The Philadelphia Foundation.

A&P, a supermarket chain that owns brands like Superfresh, Pathmark, and The Food Emporium, has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in five years. As a result, some local Superfresh and Pathmark ...

On Thursday morning, just two hours before the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) kicked off construction on the most ambitious development project the agency has ever seen, there were murmurs of ...

Among the four officers promoted to the rank of Deputy Sheriff by Sheriff Jewell Williams the first week of June was Dolores Ramos — the first female Latino Deputy Sheriff to hold the position in the ...

Kelvin Jeremiah has an immigration story. When he was 13 years old, he immigrated to the U.S. from the small Caribbean island of Grenada following the U.S. invasion in 1983. He grew up under the ...

At first glance, the modular, solar-paneled houses on Sheridan Street in North Philly might look like a distant cousin of the rising student apartments at the edge of Temple University’s ...

There was no indictment on Sunday morning when Pope Francis addressed nearly 100 inmates at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Northeast Philadelphia. The Holy Father did not condemn the alleged ...

The Hispanic Association of Contractors and Enterprises (HACE) held its annual Fiesta Caribeña at Fairhill Square Park in North Philadelphia on July 25 for the 8th year. The goal of the event was to ...