Philly’s African Drum Tradition as Resistance and Ritual
As a child in Indianapolis, I learned early that music is memory. My father and I drove miles each month to the South Side of Chicago to hear African drumming.
Real or cake? How AI confuses baking — and what bakers wish you knew
Artificial intelligence is whipping up beautiful pictures of cakes to salivate over.
But, at least for now, it cannot bake one. And even if it could, that cake would not be as delectable as what the pastry chefs at Cake Life Bake Shop in Fishtown, Philadelphia, can do.
Where are the trees we were promised?
On a recent Saturday, more than 30 volunteers gathered in Malcolm X Park to plant street trees on sidewalks in front of homes around West Philly. Despite the rain, they showed up ready to dig out tree pits, spread mulch and get around 30 trees into the ground.
“Trees are the only piece of [public] infrastructure that appreciates in value,” says Dominique London, director of the nonprofit Tree Tender group UC Green.
Dentro del sistema de acogida oculto de Filadelfia, donde los padres ceden a sus hijos “voluntariamente”
En el otoño de 2021, Tytianna Hawthorne recibió un mensaje telefónico de un investigador del Departamento de Servicios Humanos de Filadelfia: alguien podría haber maltratado a su hija de un año. El investigador actuó basándose en una pista confidencial enviada a ChildLine por una persona que llamó y dijo que una foto de Su’Layah en…