As bass lines and crowds filled Fairmount Park for Roots Picnic Weekend, another movement took shape across the city: a push to put books in people’s hands and reading at the center of culture.

Jay-Z headlined Philadelphia’s annual Roots Picnic on Saturday (March 30), marking his first solo headlining show in over five years. The highly anticipated set served as a prelude to a series of ...

Jay-Z served as the headliner for Roots Picnic on Saturday in Philadelphia, and he surprised fans with a provocative freestyle from the get-go. During his first headlining show in more than five years ...

Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend checking out The Dorians, a novel by Nick Cutter, and Lorenzo De Felici's comic series, Red Roots. It should become clear pretty ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote the Knox County Board of Education on Tuesday, informing them that KCS was to return "Roots" by Alex Haley to circulation in KCS ...

Superintendent Jon Rysewyk is putting the novel "Roots" back on Knox County Schools shelves, according to a memo shared with Knox News. The district was under immense pressure to reverse its ban on ...

Three years ago, during an expedition at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska, a submarine detected a golden orb that contrasted with surrounding rocks. Its smooth, organic surface did not resemble that ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder are the defending NBA champions and are currently locked in a battle to return to the Finals for a second straight season. They have developed a reputation for being the best ...

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Some of Pennsylvania’s finest performers will ring in America’s 250th birthday in the vicinity of the Liberty Bell this summer as part of an event dubbed One Philly: Unity Concert for America.

A recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that allows local attackers to gain root privileges on Arch Linux systems. The ...