PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — SEPTA leaders and employees paused Thursday to honor eight Black trolley operators at the center of a turbulent time in the city's transit history. In August 1944 ...

On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row houses and ...

Philadelphia museum gives unfiltered look at brutal realities of enslavement and the slave trade 03:19. It's an unassuming, small museum in Germantown.

Philadelphia’s later achievements didn’t match the ones of its Revolutionary era, but its Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River, begun in 1812, was the best water system then in the U ...

To my surprise, I found he had lived here in Philadelphia, and his story is part of a largely forgotten moment in U.S. history: when Philly was an epicenter of the national anarchist movement ...