Josephine Baker is 1st Black woman given Paris burial honor

A painting from a thrift store in Glenside is by William H. Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

Ruth Kapp Hartz evaded Nazis as a young Jewish girl in France during WWII. Now, she is watching her story onstage through the musical “Hidden.”

A gift of 300 pieces of African art will seed the new Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art.