
History
Despite vows to implement new policies, little appears to have been reformed.
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‘We just want to be welcomed back’: The Lenape seek a return home
The legacy of this region’s Indigenous people is all around, in place names and colonial history. Yet the state does not officially acknowledge them.
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Listen 4:17Remembering 9/11: Where were you?
Help us mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and tell us: Where were you?
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Philly’s great-grandmother of African dance, Ione Nash, has died
The dancer, teacher, and karate black belt stayed active until age 95.
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Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement.
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One century ago, Philadelphia was ground zero in the battle to define free speech
As World War I raged, the local Socialist Party came under fire — and sparked a challenge to the Espionage Act.
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Former Camden Mayor Gwen Faison remembered as ‘the epitome of class’
The first woman to serve as Camden’s mayor was remembered as ‘a trailblazer’ and ‘a lady at all times’ who cared deeply about her adopted city.
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New center will highlight Philadelphia’s vegan roots
The American Vegan Society is about to set up its first public storefront. Its new walking tours reveal Philly’s vegan history.
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One of the deadliest U.S. accidental structural collapses happened 40 years ago today
The deadly structural failure is still closely studied by civil engineers and serves as a cautionary tale for similar designs.
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Northern Liberties community leaders learned about the burial ground at 5th and Spring Garden via social media.
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I grew up in West Philly churches. Please stop tearing down my landmarks
West Philly’s 140-year-old Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is set to be demolished, erasing local Black history and memory, writes resident Kyle Hiller.
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MOVE bombing victim remains from Penn have been returned, family says
The university’s investigation into mishandling of victims’ remains from the 1985 bombing is ongoing.
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University of Delaware to explore slavery legacy at the Newark campus
UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.
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Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee statue that sparked a deadly rally
The city of Charlottesville, Va., removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Saturday, toppling a symbol that was at the center of the deadly Unite the Right rally
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Confederate monument that sparked deadly Charlottesville rally to be removed Saturday
The statue of Robert E. Lee that sparked the deadly Unite the Right rally four years ago in Charlottesville, Va., will be removed Saturday, the city council announced Friday.
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