The 5400 block of Delancey Street in West Philadelphia is crowded with people dancing during the memorial birthday party for Lajuan "Warren" Watkins, who was murdered a month before his 21st birthday.
A boy scooters past the row houses that make up the 5400 block of Delancey.
Justin, 3, plays with his cousin Jordan, 4, on the Fourth of July.
CC, 3, selects a sugary drink at a corner store next to the 5400 block of Delancey.
Kenyatta's 28th birthday party.
Madeline poses at the memorial for her late husband, Robert, who died in his sleep at the age of 77.
Madeline teases a child before giving him a lunch as a distributor for Philadelphia's Free Summer Meals program.
Sue tattooed a tear drop under her eye when her mother died. She says her mother tried to pull her from a crack addiction, but instead enabled Sue with cash meant for food for her family. Two of Sue's children died while she was high.
Frenchie walks back to her car after playing the lotto.
Tanya looks through a catalogue for grave markers across from the cemetery where her son Lajuan was recently buried.
Mann watches birds in his bedroom. He has lived on the block since he was 14. Now 48 years old, he can't imagine leaving.
Toronja poses in the kitchen space she shares with her mother in the sash and crown she won as Miss Black Deaf America in 2002. With ambitions to pursue a career in law, Toronja will undergo surgery to restore 90% of her hearing.
Brooke, 5, stands in the arms of her father, Ryan, during their Fourth of July cook-out.
Ray-Ray flexes in his two-year-old Halloween costume.
Bullets are kept in a tissue to keep clean while stored in pockets.
A police officer patrols the block.
Jordan, 4, plays with Bark Bark the dog.
Tanya drives through downtown.
Boys react to a dying opossum.
Rel uses smoke from a blunt to fill a balloon for a first birthday party.