Cassie covers cultural trends – from the individuals who set them to the larger social movements that are altering the Philadelphia experience. Quite often, that means zoning in on the real-life impacts of changing expectations for technology and community.
Survey questions that Phillips uses in her research appear among essays, fine art, interviews, social media posts, memes, lyrics, and other works by Black creatives in the acclaimed 544-page book.
Jerry Philogene, an arts scholar who recently won an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer grant, explains how even in death, Haitian artists depict new possibilities.
Tyesha Wilson is Philly to the core. The internet could see that clearly in a fancam video from a 2018 Sixers-Heat game that experienced a social media revival during the November election.
When firefighters first approached the two-story house on the 6700 block of North 17th Street in West Oak Lane, they saw heavy fire on the first floor, said a spokesperson.