Five years after the bronze statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo was removed from outside the Municipal Services Building and placed in storage, the city's art commission will vote ...

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 ...

In August 2025, the city of Philadelphia agreed to return a statue of Frank Rizzo to the supporters that commissioned the memorial in 1992. The 2,000-pound bronze tribute to the former police ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Art Commission on Wednesday approved a plan to return a statue ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A crane lifted a long-polarizing statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo from its home outside a public building in the wee hours of Wednesday, whisking it away after recent ...

Frank Rizzo was a truly awful human being. As police commissioner and later mayor of Philadelphia through the ’70s, he spent his time in power terrorizing black and LGBTQ communities. Despite this ...

For years, activists have pushed to remove Philadelphia’s Frank Rizzo statue. Now the Rizzo statue in Philly’s Center City section shares the floor with an 800-pound Afro pick, a new sculpture by ...

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 ...

(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 ...