Topic: Black History

Individual faith groups have begun the work of grassroots reparations for Black Philadelphians. Imagine, the movement’s organizer asks, if we could get 100 congregations on board?

The miracle of Black life — despite centuries of alienation from our American experiment — is our insistence on finding kinship with each other. That is what we celebrate this weekend

Penn professor Sarah Jackson’s new book chronicles the radical acts of Black media-makers who, recognized or not, have shaped the American Experiment over the past 250 years.

One Black history project the current administration cannot erase: a new documentary on African Americans from the time of William Penn to the Civil War — with flashes forward to modern day Philly

One month and 230 years ago, a 22-year-old escaped the Philadelphia house where Martha and George Washington enslaved her. Today, sign a petition to put honor on her name

The federal government may have removed the memorial to slavery on Independence Mall, but the history of African Americans exceeds the limits of historic comfort

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard on the origin, current state, and future of the Philadelphia memorial to slavery

African American history has been disappeared from Independence National Historical Park. Not so at the Museum of the American Revolution, with thanks to one “time traveler”

Philly writer Lorene Cary helped tell the story of the people George Washington enslaved in his home on what’s now Independence Mall. A fellow social justice activist decries the Trump-directed erasure of her work — and the facts

A legendary local journalist calls out the President for trying to erase America’s ugly past — and present — in Philly’s and the nation's first federal memorial about slavery