It’s been more than five years since Jim Kenney ordered workers to rip down the Frank Rizzo statue from its longtime home ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy J Lombardo, University of South Alabama (THE CONVERSATION) In August 2025, the ...

Former Mayor Frank Rizzo, the burly ex-police chief of Philadelphia who parlayed a reputation for toughness into a controversial political career, died Tuesday (July 16, 1991) at age 70 while running ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A cast iron statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo will be returned to the group that originally donated it, following a ruling Wednesday by the Philadelphia Art ...

The bronze statue of Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia's polarizing former police commissioner and mayor, was defaced late Thursday with the words "Black Power" written in white spray paint. The vandal also ...

The city of Philadelphia has agreed to return the Frank Rizzo statue to the Frank Rizzo Monument Committee. The statue of the former mayor and police commissioner was removed from public view at the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Frank Rizzo statue has been vandalized again on Sunday. The Action Cam was on the scene after the word "Fascist" was written in white along the jacket section of the statue ...