May a shark swallow Jefferson Davis
Old Frederick County Courthouse Civil War Museum Guide Carol Miller recounts that Winchester Virginia changed hands many times between the Union and Confederate forces during [Read More…]
Category: African-American
McDonald’s high school worker aims higher
Danielle Taylor of Germantown, a 12th grader home schooled through Agora Cyber Charter School, works 30 hours a week at the Chestnut Hill McDonald’s. She’s [Read More…]
Studies Tajweed, taking family to Mecca
Rashid Abdul/Majid, a practicing Muslim, turns to his Arabic language books during breaks in his substitute-teaching class schedule on a recent day at Parkway Northwest [Read More…]
They photograph street sounds
Nathea Lee, Anthony Dean and Monica Lyons-Jones (above with a self-portrait) are photographers who, together, form the Philadelphia Street Sounds Collective. Dean likes how the [Read More…]
Keeps Kenyan farming tradition alive in Philadelphia
Watch video interview here. Joseph Mbura, a chemistry and math teacher at the W.B. Saul High School for Agricultural Sciences in the Roxborough section of [Read More…]
Nana’s Wicker Back
Nancy-Ellen sculpted characters from her book “Nana’s Wicker Back.” The title references the scarring pattern on her own grandmother’s back from whippings as a slave. [Read More…]
Women enter forensic science
Women are entering the forensic science field and now have their own association which had a booth at the Philadelphia Science Festival carnival. Watch video [Read More…]
Million men marched
Kelly Starling Lyons, an author of African American theme pictured books, shared her stories with students at the J.S Jenks Middle School in Philadelphia in [Read More…]