Oct. 22, 2025 8:00 am
Philadelphia’s Digital Equity Programs Help Immigrants and Everyday People Get and Stay Connected
Dr. Revati Prasad of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and Christopher Wink of Technical.ly deliver the Keynote address at the Tech Learning Collaborative’s 2025 conference. Zabeehullah Yadgar is an Afghan immigrant who moved to the United States in 2023. He is now in the nine-month Digital Bridge Peer Facilitator program at The […]
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Sep. 30, 2021 3:36 pm
3 Philly nonprofits are getting money to help boost the digital literacy skills of the people they serve
The organizations receiving a combined $50,000 in AT&T grants serve kids, low-income people, immigrants and those navigating the healthcare system.
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Sep. 29, 2021 9:40 am
Opinion: It’s time to permanently close Berks County’s immigrant detention center
"As we speak, the Biden administration is pushing to turn the Berks County family prison into a women's prison," says guest columnist Jasmine Rivera.
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Sep. 27, 2021 8:48 am
Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties
In Philadelphia, a protest against Haitian deportations will take place at City Hall's northwest entrance on September 28 at 3:30 p.m.
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Jul. 1, 2021 3:31 pm
In ‘Faces of Courage’ the collaboration of artist and nonprofit becomes more than documentation
The collaboration between Harvey Finkle and New Sanctuary Movement could perhaps serve as a model for other nonprofits and other artists. The key, according to Finkle, is that it be a true collaboration.
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Jun. 30, 2021 8:30 am
Opinion: Over-policing Black immigrants can turn one mistake into deportation
For Black immigrants, even a minor or sealed conviction can be cause to reset their citizenship clock, or render them deportable, says guest columnist Cathryn Miller-Wilson.
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Jun. 4, 2021 8:22 am
What is a Philadelphia identity? In her most recent work, artist Michelle Ortiz explodes any facile definition
Her "Arrival and Belonging" installation — part of the Philadelphia Art Museum exhibit "New Grit: Art and Philly Now" — is informed by the personal narratives of people who weren't born to, but arrived at, their identity as Philadelphians.
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Mar. 31, 2021 12:00 pm
Philadelphia now has a hub for French-speaking immigrants
The work of four people from four different parts of the world — one Haitian, one Senegalese, one Algerian and one French — Le Centre Francophone de Philadelphie will enable French-speakers to help each other and uplift the community.
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Feb. 26, 2021 11:00 am
Opinion: We could have ended family detention in PA in 2016. Why is it allowed to continue?
Berks Family Residential Center "has been operating as a family prison since 2014 and this last year we’ve seen families face months of incarceration all while a global pandemic tears through prisons," says guest columnist Prudence Powell.
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Feb. 22, 2021 9:28 am
Cathryn Miller-Wilson: Proposed legislation would acknowledge that immigrants are a public good
"Throughout the pandemic, we have seen how important immigrants are to our community as they have been on the frontlines of our healthcare system and our food production," says the executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania.