The relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and its Black residents has been complicated from the city’s founding through the present day. A Black Phi

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Yo

Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro over the twentieth century. Hunter's analy

Meet some of Philadelphia's fiercest black women leaders. They range from the first black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694)--who ran a ferry busines

Traces the personalities and the policies of two generations of leaders in one of the largest and most influential free black communities in antebellum America.