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Artist John Dowell sees spirits in the park and brings them to life in a performance installation at the Barnes Foundation.

A council member who shepherded funds to the museum says the party doesn’t aim to “stir up anything.” An NAACP leader says it doubles down on “white supremacy.”

After years of petitioning, The Rename Taney Coalition hopes for a breakthrough in their fight to rename Taney Street, famously named after Roger B. Taney.

The project, with a budget of $500,000, will be the first statue of an African American historic female figure in the city’s public art collection.

A federal jury has found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other defendant guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

An 18th-century farmhouse near Langhorne is being renovated into Bucks County’s only Black museum.

The new Eastern Mediterranean gallery at Penn Museum updates the ancient “crucible” that gave rise to the pillars of our modern world.

Historian Andrew Diemer on William Still, a Philadelphia abolitionist who led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. His new biography is "Vigilance."

Lionell Dotson, the brother of two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, has filed a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Despite remaining scaffolding, the historic building in Washington Square reopens to the public on Monday.

Frankie Longo, who’s won the Italian Market Festival competition multiple times, has some tips on what not to do when grease pole climbing.

The first one opened on Chestnut street, eventually spawning 150 coin-operated diners across the U.S. — and a short-lived children’s show.

Residents have simultaneously appreciated and disdained the Frankford El since it debuted in Philadelphia 100 years ago.

The City of Philadelphia issued an apology in October for its role in experiments University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert Kligman conducted at the prison.

The new rock musical revives the circus sideshow performers as feminist icons.