
Posts tagged with Women


The women powering West Philly’s thriving Ethiopian and Eritrean restaurant scene

Meet Hannah Callowhill Penn, Pa.’s first and only woman leader
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‘Watch Out Philly’ posts warnings about potentially harmful people around the city, helping victims spread the word

Harriet Tubman is Philadelphia’s first monument to a historical Black woman…but it’s only temporary

125 years after women founded The Plastic Club to break into a men-only scene, the arts group is thriving

Temple names new media center for Claire Smith, pioneering Black woman sports reporter

Kate Scott will make Philly sports history as first woman to call a Sixers game

Signs and scenes from the Women’s March, drawing hundreds to Philadelphia City Hall

At Eddie’s in Chinatown, one of Philly’s oldest tattoo parlors, women are inking the art

The Philly woman behind Mother’s Day hated what it became

Why doesn’t Philly have a WNBA team? The local history of women’s basketball and the case for bringing it back

‘Fresh Air’ archives have the ~content~ you crave for Women’s History Month

Free supplies, clean bathrooms and a safe haven: Germantown hub opens to address ‘period poverty’

Why 2 of 3 people who’ve gotten the COVID vaccine so far in Philly are women

When Philly abolitionists opened the first women’s medical school in the world

Created at a brewery, this new collective celebrates Philly’s many women makers, artists and leaders

Just 5% of Philadelphia schools are named after women

Why Philly’s ‘Safe Bars’ program stalled, and how it might get fixed
