As free market advocates, it is incumbent upon us to answer the skeptic who thinks that poor people will starve in the streets absent the State. The Urban League of Philadelphia is one such answer, right in our own backyard.
Chris Tremoglie: America’s Forgotten WWII Internment Camps
While many know of the internment of the Japanese during WWII, the plight of interned people of German and Italian descent – people from countries that, unlike Japan, did not attack us on U.S. soil before the war – is often ignored.
Josh Gohlke: Five things I shouldn’t but do miss about Philadelphia
A compulsive attachment to disposable artifacts of the relatively recent past is a prerequisite of any claim to being a real Philadelphian.
By Josh Gohlke
Tigre Hill: Dr. King and Cecil Moore, very different men united in common cause
One was a hard-charging Marine, the other a practitioner of nonviolent resistance. Segregation at Girard College didn’t stand a chance.
By Tigre Hill
Kevin Ferris: Dr. King’s rightful place in the history of Philly and the nation
Perhaps the civil rights leader’s most significant visit to Philadelphia was in 1959, when he posed for a Liberty Bell photo during a tour of Independence Hall.
By Kevin Ferris
Stu Bykofsky: Some #MeToo worries of Lynne Abraham
Stu Bykofsky sits down with the legendary former District Attorney of Philadelphia.
Colleen Sheehan: Christmas at Randalls – a message for this holiday season
Reading this scene by Jane Austen, whose birthday is Dec. 16, our heads are filled with good things to remember, thoughts that dance in our holiday imaginations.
By Colleen Sheehan
Elizabeth Steele: Philadelphia and Jane Austen, making a connection
Perhaps with her aunt’s story in mind, Austen, whose birthday is Dec. 16, wrote endings for young women of little fortune but great courage.
By Elizabeth Steele
Elizabeth-Jane McGuire: The ‘Yes’ of Mr. Rogers
I had gone into the movie hoping to be entertained, but what I got was a dose of spiritual direction.
By Elizabeth-Jane McGuire
Art Carey: When Mister Rogers was my neighbor — and my friend
He was a prodigious, patient listener, an outstanding anomaly in this age when so many seem uninterested in hearing what others have to say.
By Art Carey