(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Williams-Witherspoon, who also serves as senior associate dean of the Center for ...

“We was just in the hood,” he said. He and his friends, with little to do in North Philly, would start fights in school, jump ...

A police officer is recovering from minor injuries after being hit by a stolen white Honda Civic in North Philly on Tuesday ... and causing him to roll on the hood and fall on the street about ...

A pizza delivery driver who had just finished his shift was shot and killed in his car in North Philadelphia on ... wearing dark-colored clothing and a hood over his head as he fled southbound ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Even before the Eagles faced the Chiefs in Super Bowl 57, chaos was unfolding in North Philadelphia ... this young lady standing on my hood. So, I came downstairs to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...