Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia will grant $9 million over three years to individuals and organizations with artistic ideas for the city. In January, Knight Foundation narrowed a pool of 1,700 applicants down to 63 finalists. Four of those finalists hail from South Philly. Earlier this month, The South Philly Review took a closer look at one of them: Mighty Writers. Click here to read the full story and read below for an excerpt.

Reprinted from the South Philly Review:

An audio documentary from South of South writing center Mighty Writers, 1501 Christian St., is one of the innovative ideas that was pitched and selected as a finalist for the grant. Mighty Writers, a nonprofit center that helps students ages 7 to 17 with tutoring, workshops and an after-school program, came up with the idea for “Sound and Fury,” an original documentary project about the influence of African-American Philadelphia radio during the 1950s-’80s.

Maggie Leyman, Mighty Writers’ development director who is in charge of the “Sound and Fury” project, described the idea as a multimedia documentary project that centers around WDAS, the most famous black radio station of the ’60s and ’70s.

We want to focus on the voices of Philadelphia, WDAS, the DJs and jocks, and get the people who did it to talk about it…continue reading