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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Since fall, the center has been hosting live shows by small acts, performed to an empty hall and streamed online. An eight-dancer contingent from the Taylor company will be the largest to visit yet.
The VF image brings new sophistication to a singer who first came on the scene as a young teen. “We’ve known her since she was 13, and now she’s 19," Lemons says. "That’s a very different person.”
