Labor Day weekend celebrations got underway in North Philadelphia on Friday with OIC Philadelphia’s fourth annual Alumni and Community Block Party, an event that combined entertainment, food and community resources while highlighting the nonprofit’s decades-long mission of workforce development and economic opportunity.
The event featured live music, free food and resource tables for attendees.
Organizers said the celebration was also an opportunity to recognize the impact of Opportunities Industrialization Center, or OIC, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1964 by the late Rev. Dr. Leon Sullivan…