arts-and-culture
How to keep kids curious. Five questions answered | Opinion
Curiosity is a natural capacity, present in nonhuman animals as well as in humans from a very young age.
These high school ‘classics’ have been taught for years. Are their days numbered? | Opinion
Does a new generation of students require a new generation of literary classics?
How 18th Century Quakers led a sugar boycott to protest slavery | Opinion
In the 1780s, British and American Quakers launched an extensive and unprecedented propaganda campaign against slavery and slave-labor products.
What is Chinese Lunar New Year, and how is it celebrated? Your questions answered | Analysis
Official celebrations of China's biggest holiday start Feb. 1 and run for seven days.
2021: Our year of irony and tragedy | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Pay attention; be informed; take action to avoid the impending calamity. It’s the only way we can keep our republic.
In Philadelphia, storefront art exhibition uplifts Black- and brown-owned businesses
'I love this project so much because it really demonstrates what Philly does best — that’s turning loss into inspiration and empty space into opportunity,' a local leader said.
Philly’s transgender and nonbinary icons to be honored with new murals
By Michele Zipkin PHILADELPHIA — Two murals celebrating transgender and nonbinary Philadelphians will soon be installed in the city — one on the facade of Philly AIDS Thrift in Queen Village and the other on the side of Cake Life Bake Shop in Fishtown. The murals are the culmination of a partnership between Mural Arts’ […]
For Black cowboys – from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas – horses and riding are a way of life | Opinion
A Swarthmore College professor explains how his photographs of Philadelphia’s urban riding clubs ended up becoming a broader project on the Black cowboy experience in America.
The deep influence of the A-bomb on anime and manga, explained
Seventy-five years later, the Japanese are still reckoning with the legacy of the trauma of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.