African-American - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

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 the Civil War. And during…

January 1, 2016

African-American BUSINESS Food and Drink

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 paid at the rate of…

December 5, 2013

African-American Education Elderly

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 High School in Mount Airy.…

February 14, 2013

African-American ART EVENTS

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 lighting and weather on the…

December 7, 2012

African-American Education ENVIRONMENT

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 Philadelphia has loved gardening since…

September 30, 2012

African-American ART Books

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. “These women are bought and…

May 15, 2012

African-American CRIME Science

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 interview here.

May 14, 2012

African-American Books HISTORY

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 celebration of Black History month…

March 6, 2012