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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As Black History Month comes to an end, a local high school is celebrating Black student excellence through a social media campaign. At YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School, students ages 17-21 are equipped with the resources to earn a high school diploma and trade certification. And to help uplift those students this month, public […]
Archival work is important to stitch together previously unknown pieces of, what Skiba calls, “this great quilt we call the LGBTQIA community.” “Until all the stories are told, the complete story isn’t told,” he said. Skiba has worked for almost 50 years in historical documentation and preservation, but sometimes that’s difficult work. In the 1930s, […]
Reginald Streater graduated from Germantown High in 2001, the year the state seized control of the Philadelphia School District. On Dec. 15, he became president of the board that runs the school system, succeeding longtime board president Joyce Wilkerson, who opted . . .
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