The Latest Breaking News from Philadelphia

When the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority launched the 49 bus route in Philadelphia in early 2019, those who most benefited were older adults and people who already ride the bus – and not commuters who were persuaded to ditch their cars for public transportation, according to our new research.

Footage of a Philadelphia police officer with his knee on the neck of a protestor has shocked viewers as nationwide protests against ICE sweep the nation.

To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently performed to accompany a 1986 photograph by Philadelphia photographer Joseph V. Labolito.

A man allegedly posing as an ICE agent robbed a Philadelphia shop by zip-tying a woman and stealing $1,000.