Eminent scholar Deborah Willis, who grew up in North Philadelphia, says Black soldiers’ Civil War photos were sending a message: “That there was and will be a Black future.”

The best in-person and virtual things to do with your kids this week in Philadelphia.

Anyone listening to concerts, recordings, and broadcasts over the past year may be sensing an age of new possibility. Where we go from here feels limitless.

The Paul Taylor dancers looked as wonderful as ever, fit, fluid, and fully rehearsed, even dancing full-out in masks.

Construction begins in March at one of the Philadelphia region’s top tourist attractions, in Chester County. Weiss/Manfredi is the architect, with gardens and pools by Reed Hilderbrand.

Christopher Woods has been running Chicago's renowned Oriental Institute since 2017. He walked away from physics to make a career of his college hobby: the ancient Sumerian language.

The "sin eaters" in this crackling new noir are content moderators who gatekeep content for social-media platforms.

Potter’s fields that were scattered over the land where Penn now stands were dug up and human remains removed for study, including some skulls in the museum’s Morton Collection, a new report says.

"Pandemic" was a first-place winner in the 2020 Philadelphia Young Playwrights’ festival and was chosen to be produced with the help of theater professionals.

Two other new releases of note come from jazz greats Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

In the first few months of COVID-era operations, the local concert presenter's digital enterprise has racked up some eye-popping numbers.

Pianist Michelle Cann is exquisite in the Digital Stage concert featuring the original orchestration of Price's stunning work.

Frances McDormand plays a van dweller journeying through the American West in Chloe Zhao's “Nomadland.”