SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
“Why race-specific voter turnout data is a challenge to collect” at Poynter
Ron Williams, Jr., of Washington, has his daughter Mimi Williams, 2, help him to push the button while casting his vote at an early voting center at Nationals Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Ashley Dawson (left) and her daughter Shana Dawson at their home in Aldan, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
William D. Kelley School Principal Crystal Edwards takes notes during a Zoom meeting with her faculty on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, at her home in Newark, Delaware. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
“School Daze” at Hear to Slay Podcast, Luminary (Hosted by Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom)
“Protect Ya Peace” at Hear to Slay Podcast, Luminary (Hosted by Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom)
School Daze: As college and university students and faculty return to an uncertain school year due to COVID- 19, Roxane and Tressie speak with Debbie Millman (@DebbieMillman), host of Design Matters and Chair of the MPS Branding Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Later in the episode, producer Sojourner Ahebee brings us a story about how Black college towns are faring economically during the global pandemic.
Protect Ya Peace: This year has taken a toll not just on our bodies, but our mental and emotional health as well. As we seek to find balance, rest, and even joy through it all, Tressie and Roxane talk to Erica Woodland, founder of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, about transforming mental health through a justice-oriented lens. Later in the show, journalist Sojourner Ahebee talks to several clinical practitioners and researchers about the cumulative effects of stress and racism on Black bodies. (The song featured in this story, "We Shall Not Be Moved," was recorded at a local Philadelphia BLM/Black teachers’ march in July 2020. The singer is Tamara Anderson.)
(Left to right) Julia R. Masterman School rising seniors Aden Gonzales, Nia Weeks, Tatiana Bennett, and Taryn Flaherty en route to turn in their historical marker application. December 2019. (Photo courtesy of Aden Gonzales)
Berks County-based poet, Anthony Orozco, performs poems at the Firefly bookstore in Kutztown, Pa. (Photography by Mateo Toro)
Haverford College freshman, Rasaaq Shittu (right) and Bella Merchant (Bryn Mawr ‘21) at a 3D-prosthetics charity workshop at Haverford's Maker Space before coronavirus pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Rasaaq Shittu)
“‘I didn’t believe we were going to get out’: Stranded U.S. Citizens finally make it home” at WHYY News (NPR Member Station)
Sara Schuenemann boards last U.S.-bound charter flight out of Peru after being stranded in Lima for 12 days. (Photo courtesy of Richard Levering)
”Stranded in South America: ‘Our embassy and state department have failed us’” at WHYY News (NPR Member Station)
Sara Schuenemann and Richard Levering's trip to the supermarket during nationwide quarantine. Lima, Peru. (Photo courtesy of Richard Levering)
”’We can’t be around each other in the way we want’: Funerals amid coronavirus crisis” at WHYY News (NPR Member Station)
Three generations of the Beverly family attend LaVoe's housewarming. (Courtesy of Desiree Beverly-McBride)
”How three Pennsylvania teachers tackle remote learning in the time of coronavirus” at WHYY News (NPR Member Station)
Springfield High School teacher, Fonda Akins (far right) with colleagues at 2015 school diversity night, which may be cancelled this year due to the spread of COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Fonda Akins.)
"Renaissance in the Belly of A Killer Whale" at Wilma Theater, with (from left) Janelle Heatley, Hollis Heath, and Jaylene Clark Owens. (Photo courtesy of Johanna Austin)
“Martin Luther King Jr.’s signature graces a bible in South Philadelphia pawnshop” at WHYY News (NPR Member Station)
Peter Del Borrello III’s shop at Broad and Washington has become home to an unexpected artifact: a Bible inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Photography by Kira Bursky.
"A New Sight: Light & the Color Yellow in Beauford Delaney's Portraits" at Les Amis de Beauford Delaney:
"We Wear Our History in Our Darkness: The Black Woman's Body in France, Past & Present" at Entrée to Black Paris:
La Belle Hottentot, a 19th-century French print of Baartman
"A Boundless Love: Beauford Delaney's Letters to Larry Calcagno" at Les Amis de Beauford Delaney:
Photograph by Leslie Schenk of (l-r), “Arnold”, James Baldwin, Lawrence Calcagno, and Beauford Delaney in Ibiza, Spain, 1956. Courtesy of David Leeming, and illustrated in, An Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno.
Photography by Seydou Keïta.
Photography by Sojourner Ahébée.
The Necessity of French Cafés(Part 2) at Entrée to Black Paris:
"10 Must-Watch Films About Identity & Survival" at The Odyssey at Stanford:
