The civil rights legacy of Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln University’s first Black president

Bond's research helped make school segregation illegal, and his son would go on to co-found the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Remembering Ruffhouse Records, the ’90s Philly music label behind hits like Cypress Hill, The Fugees, and ‘Jump’

One of the era's biggest recording powerhouses was founded in Northern Liberties.

The Philadelphia Quaker who invented modern work’s relentless drive for efficiency

Frederick Taylor began experimenting with "scientific management" at Nicetown's Midvale Steel.

A first in 1922: Two Pa. women secure major party nominations for Congress

One was a professor, while the other was related to Ben Franklin.

How a North Philly-born blind boxer rose to welterweight fame, then was forced to quit

Joe Harris hid his vision impairment through two dozen bouts, but when it discovered, the news cost him his career.

How the construction of the Vine Street Expressway uncovered lost Black burial grounds

The highway runs over a pair of cemeteries run by the First African Baptist Church, which served a congregation of free Black people in the pre-Civil War era.

Baseball history: The Phillies and the A’s faced off in the ‘City Series’ for over 50 years

The Athletics usually won, but in 1915 the Phils took the first game — and went on to win the National League.

Cheeky 1937 caricature depicts one of Philly’s best-known art collectors as a circus ringmaster

Lou Hirshman does Albert C. Barnes.

Lani Guinier, the Penn law prof who was an early advocate of expanding voting rights

She eventually left Philadelphia to join the faculty at Harvard — but not before a now-famous colleague.

Transit workers in 1910 sparked a general strike that brought Philadelphia to a standstill

Upwards of 75k people walked off the job.

How Charles L. Blockson turned childhood disrespect into a mission to create Black history collections

He donated thousands of items to Temple University and Penn State.

A 1960s state official claimed Pa. college students took LSD and went blind — and newspapers believed him

It turned out the story was a total hoax.

Nearly 100 years ago, Pa.’s Senate race was jolted by allegations of election fraud in Philadelphia

The ostensible winner of the 1926 contest, Republican William S. Vare, was never seated as senator.

1990s battle over Mt. Airy AIDS hospice center shows the power of grassroots opposition — and the limits of NIMBYism

After much controversy, Betak eventually opened, but it would not last long.

A hateful crime, a false confession, a federal investigation: The 1975 Feltonville firebombing

By the end, six police detectives would be convicted of civil rights violations.

40 years ago, a legendary Philly columnist helped defuse a prison hostage situation

The Graterford crisis was one of many negotiated by well-trusted Chuck Stone, who spent two decades at the Daily News.

How racial profiling drove away Philly’s first heavyweight boxing champion

"I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia."

The Philadelphia ties of the Soviet refusenik once called a ‘modern-day Moses’

When Masha and Vladimir Slepak were released after 17 years, they had Philly friends to thank.

The Philadelphia pennant race that brought 200 cops to a baseball game

Thanks to comments by Athletics' manager Connie Mack, Philly fans piled on the threats against Detroit's Ty Cobb.

The ‘war tax’ resistance movement and the Philly athlete who pioneered anthem protests

After they were arrested at a 1961 sit-in, Philadelphians Juanita and Wally Nelson and Eroseanna Robinson continued activism throughout their lives.