Valerie Russ

Emily Bhatnagar has helped donate over 25,000 books to kids in hospitals. Now she's getting a new award for her charitable work.

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families."

After an Inquirer story on P.A.S.H.I., which sews reusable period pads for girls and women in Africa, the group got a boost in donations, volunteers, and a new website.

A group of retired Black women in Philly, many already skilled quilters and artists, gather weekly to sew period pads for girls in Africa. Along the way, they've also built a community here.

Mural Arts held a dedication of the completed The Thankful Poor mural, a recreation of the original painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner. Artist George Anthony Morton was curator of the mural.

After a delay due to the pandemic, Philadelphia is planning to move forward on erecting a statue of civil rights lawyer Sadie T.M. Alexander. A public Zoom meeting is set for Nov. 7.

Deborah Hill Gary, a Philadelphia businesswoman who founded the Society to Preserve Philadelphia African American Assets and helped launch the Friends of Tanner House, died at 69.

Roberto Lugo lived in Kensington and did graffiti. He left due to the violence and studied art. Now his ancient Greek-themed pottery is on exhibit at a Princeton University Art Museum gallery.

The previous spelling of Charles Willson Peale, who is considered the artist of the American Revolution, was missing an "l" in Wilson.

There were a crop of babies arriving in the wee hours of 2025. The first in the Philadelphia area may be Owen Eugene Brewer, a boy, born at midnight at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Easton.

Creative Philadelphia is reminding artists that the deadline to submit their Phase I qualifications application to create a statue of lawyer and economist Sadie T.M. Alexander is Dec. 30.

Service at Mount Moriah Cemetery honored remains of those originally buried at First Baptist Church.

Tyler is now the African Methodist Episcopal Church's historiographer and executive director of the church’s Department of Research and Scholarship.

Historians came to Philadelphia to discuss slavery in the North. They talked about the Black men in Christiana, Pa., who fought off "slave catchers" and Josiah Henson, the man who became "Uncle Tom."

The Any Day Now creative writing series, in honor of Philadelphia poet Larry Neal, starts Saturday. It's a project of the Friends of the Tanner House and the Strawberry Mansion Learning Center.

In 2021, SEPTA caught flack because a painting at its Fifth Street station misspelled Frederick Douglass' first name. This month, a historian noticed another error in Charles Willson Peale's name.

Two men were killed in Philadelphia during New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day shootings. Another man was injured, and a SWAT barricade ended with three arrests.

The Church of the Advocate shuttered its Advocate Cafe soup kitchen in September after 40 years, but a community member is sponsoring free Thanksgiving meals there on Thursday.

“Maybe it’s a place where people can come together, get to know each other and build unity,” a Strawberry Mansion block captain said.

George Anthony Morton, an Atlanta-based artist who views Henry Ossawa Tanner as a spiritual mentor, is the artist for a mural of Tanner's The Thankful Poor in Philadelphia.