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PHILADELPHIA — Marea Claybourne-Napier was 5 years old and considering the world of fairy tales when she asked her mother a question: Where were the princesses who looked like her?

PHILADELPHIA — Doc Rivers was 140 days old at the time. His players were multiple decades away from being conceived.

PHILADELPHIA — As Russian forces were closing in on Kyiv last Thursday, Oksana Maslova, a Philadelphia Ballet dancer from Ukraine, was exchanging text messages with friends and family nearly 5,000 miles away. Her mother, who had gone to Kyiv to be with Maslova's sister, spent the previous two nights in…

History will not look back kindly at Black History Month 2022.

PHILADELPHIA — Planners behind the drive to erect a sculpture of Marian Anderson in her hometown are casting about for potential artists and, for the first time, have outlined a detailed timeline for completion of the project.

PHILADELPHIA — It's been nearly a year since Christopher Hinkle was beaten to death inside a Philadelphia jail cell, but his family says it knows little more about his last moments than it did when first told of his death.

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PHILADELPHIA — While stuck in his second-floor Center City apartment during the height of the pandemic in 2020, graduate student Ben Berman worked on his pizza recipe.

PHILADELPHIA — Harold Carmichael was a wiry teenager hanging out at a teammate's house when he decided he wanted to play football at Southern University.

Philadelphia’s president of basketball operations was impressed with Harden’s quick adjustment to the team.

Americans scapegoated immigrants, and pushed quackery and fakes cures, during the pandemic of 1793. Sound familiar?