On July 30, 2025, City Hall honored Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander—America’s first Black woman economist and lawyer—with a statue unveiling led by sculptor Vinnie Bagwell, Mayor Cherelle Parker, and Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter. The tribute highlights her legacy, Black excellence, and cultural memory in Philadelphia.
The story is unfinished. For many immigrants arriving in Philadelphia, progress is not marked by dramatic moments but by the slow, steady build of ordinary days.
In African societies, the institution of marriage is as complex as it comes. With many cultures observing long-standing traditions, norms, and procedures by which the union between a man and woman is conducted, marital choices undergo a certain level of scrutiny and considerations that require the involvement of family, and communities in the selection of spouses.
Across Africa, there is a growing discontent among the younger generations who feel that not only are their leaders disconnected from the aspirations, and realities of the people whom they are elected to serve, but the same leaders also seem committed to brutalize as well as deny them their needs and rights to a quality standard of living.
A deeper conversation about Black Women’s Pain, Power, and the Fight for Bodily Freedom Adriana Smith never got to hold…
When you search “refugees” online, most headlines scream crisis boats capsized, borders closed, chaos unfolding. But here in Philadelphia, the real refugee story is unfolding in quieter ways; in corner shops, in community kitchens, in after-school tutoring programs, and in mothers walking their children to school.
Photos by Aidan Gallo Michelle Flamer, a retired lawyer, stands for a portrait at the Good Trouble Lives On protest…
Human Trafficking, a redefined mode of slavery in modern times, has continued to remain one of the growing scourges and a grave injustice to the freedom and dignity of humans especially in the continent of Africa.
A Philadelphia native born January 2, 1898, Sadie Alexander shattered racial and gender barriers to become the first Black woman to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1927) and became the first Black woman to practice law in the state. Now, nearly a century after her academic triumphs, the city is poised to install a bronze homage, amplifying conversations around representation in public monuments.
When people talk about immigration in the United States, African immigrants are often left out of the conversation or misrepresented entirely. While the national narrative tends to focus on Latin American or Asian migration, African immigrants make up one of the fastest-growing and most successful immigrant groups in the U.S.
