Gibbs tries to inspire others with her story. “I tell them, ‘I want to pour this into you while you are young,’ ” she said. " 'If I can do it, you can, too.’ ”
From California to New York, teachers have straight up revolutionized the use of construction paper and whatever other supplies they had on hand to honor black heroes.
The cross streets of Sixth and Market, where the naming ceremony was held, represented not freedom, but enslavement for nine people who worked in George Washington’s household there.
A cast of 75 will bring to life the voices of mothers searching for their children, husbands for their wives, daughters and sons for their parents, siblings for each other.
by Rasheedah Phillips and Jenna Collins, for the Inquirer/February 8
The Philadelphia Bar Association found that tenants without legal representation are disruptively displaced due to eviction in 78 percent of cases, compared to 5 percent of represented tenants.
Black style has been influential in popular fashion as seen with zoot suits during the jazz age and hip-hop inspired streetwear. Vintage boutique owner Erik Honesty’s appreciation for the black man’s role in fashion history is shown through his taste for vintage clothing.
The Museum of the American Revolution will put on display Friday the delicately inscribed powder horn carried by Gershom Prince, killed in battle in 1778.
