Organizers and community members marched from Huntingdon Station to Prevention Point Thursday in memory of those who have died from overdose. The annual event is part of International Overdose Awareness Day.
Mayor Cherelle Parker’s sweeping $2 billion housing plan—the Housing Opportunities Made Easy (H.O.M.E.) initiative aims to preserve and create 30,000 housing units over four years in response to the city’s housing crisis.
Born and raised in Kensington, Austin Wright launched Ava’s Farm — a local produce market and nonprofit that offers free meals and youth programs to residents.
The Story Corner is a collaboration between Kensington Voice and McPherson Square Library, located at the intersection of Kensington and Indiana Avenues.
The Through Our Eyes camera project was the pilot of Kensington Voice’s Story Corner section, where we provide a platform for anybody to tell their own story through the work they produce in our interactive workshops. We hold our story corner workshops every other week at McPherson Square Library. Check out our Facebook event for details.
In this specific workshop, photographers aimed to answer a question created by longtime resident Evan Figueroa-Vargas: “What does Kensington look like to you?” The goal was for community members to reclaim the narrative about Kensington, which the media commonly depicts as dirty, run-down, and hopeless.
Over the course of a month, community members met with each other to learn about visual storytelling, plan their photo stories, make photographs on Fujifilm single-use cameras, and return them for processing. They also worked together to add captions, comment on each other’s photos, and pick photos for the exhibition.
The photos are on display at McPherson Square Library from mid-January through mid-February.
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Editor: Maggie Loesch / Photographers: Tuesday Chalmers, Theresa Farrell, Jim “Bear” Katona Jr., Lisa Kelley,
Kensington Voice, in partnership with NKCDC and funded by LISC Philly, is launching a small business storytelling project to celebrate local entrepreneurs.
At Kensington Voice, we hold ourselves to the highest editorial standards to ensure our reporting is accurate, balanced, fair, and
We are thrilled to announce that Emily Rizzo is joining the Kensington Voice staff as a full-time accountability reporter covering
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