Tag: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney

After 16 years, Philadelphia is retaking control of its public schools from the state government. For the eighth-largest school district in the nation, the...

At a time when historically tone-deaf monuments to Confederate leaders, slave owners, genocidal explorers and other beacons of white supremacy occupy public attention, the...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney unveiled designs Friday for a 12-foot statue to honor one of the city’s most influential African-Americans. Octavius Catto was a Renaissance...