Month: December 2024

In 1918, a predominantly Black branch of the Germantown YWCA formed, becoming the home to future National Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Ora Washington. An African American women’s basketball team called the Germantown Hornets was

The Fairmount Park Conservancy, one of the leading nonprofits for outdoor areas in Philadelphia, has been around for decades. After evolving from The Commission, which was created in 1867, and The Fairmount Park Foundation, which

Theresa Romanowska and Micheal Blichasz have worked at the Polish American Cultural Center in OldCity for years. Romanowska, the center’s special events coordinator, is a Port Richmond native and a second-generation Polish American, her grandparents