Block by Block
Block by Block is a community news program covering the Philadelphia region with news reports filed by members of the community.
The show is produced by a multigenerational team of community journalists and broadcast liv twice a month on PhillyCAM's radio station 106.5 FM in Philadelphia and online at phillycam.org/listen.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
August 27, 2025 (Around the Block)
Around the Block is a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with repor…
July 20, 2025 (Around the Block)
Around the Block is a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with repor…
June 15, 2025 (Around the Block)
Around the Block is a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with repor…
June 11, 2025
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about an effort to change the way school districts in Pennsylvania are funded, a new museum in New Jersey where you can dig for fossils…
May 28, 2025
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a push to strengthen Philadelphia’s Sanctuary Schools policy, a condom fashion show that highlights the need for comprehensive se…
May 18, 2025 (Around the Block)
Around the Block is a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with repor…
May 14, 2025
This episode features stories from our community news reporters a May Day Rally that brought thousands of people to Center City in support of labor and immigration rights, independent filmmakers in P…
April 30, 2025
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about judicial elections and the upcoming Pennsylvania primary, SEPTA’s funding crisis, a Black-owned Comic Book Shop on South Street, …
April 27, 2025 (Around the Block)
Around the Block is a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with repor…
April 16, 2025
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about how SEPTA could have to dramatically cut services and raise fares if additional funding isn’t secured soon, how news reporting ab…
April 2, 2025
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a fight over the future of a North Philly library, what it took to open a new Filipino restaurant in Brewerytown, a community ar…
March 16, 2025 (Around the Block)
Around the Block, a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with report…
February 16, 2025 (Beyond the Block)
This is the first episode of Beyond the Block, a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM.
On this program we’ll continue to explore issues in the Philadelphia regi…
December 18, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about how some organizations in Philly are preparing to fight policy proposals from the incoming Trump administration, a group of sing…
December 4, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about how the financial uncertainty facing SEPTA, how immigrant advocacy groups in our region are preparing for the incoming Trump adm…
November 20, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a group that provides free tampons, pads, and other menstrual products for students at the Community College of Philadelphia, Tr…
November 6, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a community center in West Philly, a Day of the Dead celebration taking place in a Philadelphia garden this weekend, and the 24t…
October 23, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a community refrigerator that helps feed families in one Germantown neighborhood, a West Philadelphia institution that promotes …
October 9, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about students leading protests against the Sixers plan to build an arena in Center City near Chinatown, growing food in your own comm…
June 12, 2024
This episode features stories from our community news reporters about a school for community organizers who want to learn more about prison abolition, group that does trolley tours to support local …