Black History Month, celebrated in February, commemorates the 15th Amendment that granted African Americans the right to vote and acknowledges the role played by them throughout history. In Philadelphia, Black History Month is especially significant ...
Photo: David Maialetti / Philadelphia Inquirer As a fresh-off-the-boat South Asian, I used to feel a surge of pride whenever I saw American people struggling with spicy food. Bolstered by the ill-founded confidence a new, ...
We are not born with culture, but we are born into it. As we grow from babies into children into teenagers and finally adults, we collect memories, languages, behaviors, and customs. In this Freely Free ...
Photo: Chronicle/Darryl Bush “People without a sense of humor are not very smart,” author Marjane Satrapi said during a candid, heart-to-heart conversation at the Annenberg Center of Communication, the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday. An ...
Illustration: Sana Kewalramani A swarm of people was huddled in Montgomery Auditorium at Parkway Central Library on Wednesday, Feb. 6, their eyes keenly following every nuance of DaMaris B. Hill’s calculated hand gestures as she ...
What prompted my foray into Philadelphia’s Halal food scene was an impromptu trip to Chick-fil-a on a hot June afternoon. As someone who tries to follow a strict Halal diet, meat, specifically good meat is ...
There was a hiccup, a cough, and the jumbled clip-clop of high heels and work boots. I was surrounded by a seething mass of humanity closing in at me from every angle, jolting me and ...
