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How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?

Amy Jane Cohen is having the hard conversations Black America asked white people to have. Yet in a city that boasts a long tradition of Black scholarship, her book is commanding outsized attention.

Amy Jane Cohen was photographed with her book, "Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape," at Cafe Walnut in Philadelphia.
Amy Jane Cohen was photographed with her book, "Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape," at Cafe Walnut in Philadelphia.Read moreElizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer