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Billie Holiday meets a sergeant and other soldiers at the South Broad Street USO, 1943. Photo by John W. Mosley.
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Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphians in the Twentieth Century

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, studio staff Joy O. Ude and Avery Lawrence print Will Stokes Jr.’s Hidden. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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Art in Process

Colored People Time: Banal Presents installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents

"Documenting & Interpreting the Philly Jazz Legacy," "A Great Day in Philadelphia: Jazz Rules!," 1995. Photo by Elena Bouvier.
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Documenting & Interpreting the Philly Jazz Legacy

"Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project," extract from the reconstructed Constitution of the state of Louisiana, portraits of the distinguished members of the Convention & Assembly,1868. Photo courtesy of the National Constitution Center.
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Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project

Maryanne Amacher’s Intelligent Life cover,  circa 1982. Photo courtesy of Bowerbird.
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Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, "Ravel: Landscape or Portrait?." Photo by Paul B. Goode.
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Deep Blue Sea

Pig Iron Theatre Company, Love Unpunished, set designed by Mimi Lien. Photo courtesy of Pig Iron Theatre Company.
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Superterranean

Odean Pope, Coltrane Celebration, 2017. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Sounds of the Circle

Saundra Gilliard Davis. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Contemporary.
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100 People Listening: a shared decade

University of the Arts School of Dance, Nora Chipaumire, "#PUNK" performance shot. Pictured: Nora Chipaumire and Shamar Watt. Photo by Ian Douglas.
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The School for Temporary Liveness

The Wilma Theater, "Adapt!," written and directed by Blanka Zizka. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
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There

James Claypoole Jr., "The German Bleeds & Bears ye Furs Of Quaker Lords & Savage Curs ...," 1964, etching, Philadelphia. Image courtesy of The Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America

"Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller," Ed Emshwiller circa 1970s, photo courtesy of Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia.
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Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller

"Old City Arts History Project," poster for Old City Arts, fall 1978. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Dance Projects.
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Old City Arts History Project

Presbyterian Historical Society, Museum Without Walls Calder Statues sign, installed August 2018. Photo courtesy of Presbyterian Historical Society.
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Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers: Archives-Based Learning

South Asian American Digital Archive, Pavi Jaisankar speaks at a SAADA Community Forum at the Asian Arts Initiative in front of a photograph of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first South Asian woman to earn a degree in Western medicine, 2013. Photo by Vivek G. Bharathan.
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Revolution Remix: A South Asian American Sound Tour of Historic Philadelphia

Stenton, the home of William Penn’s Secretary, James Logan, 1730. Photo by Jim Garrison, 2012.
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Inequality in Bronze: Monumental Plantation Legacies

Jo Davidson, "Walt Whitman," 1957, bronze on granite base statue. Photo by Alec Rogers for the Association for Public Art, 2016.
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Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy

"Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance," Nancy Michael Shulkaitis Papers, documents of resistance to Federal declarations and efforts to stop the Tocks Island Dam, Lehigh University SC MS 0238. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.  
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Chronicling Resistance, Enabling Resistance

The White Lama, Theos Casmir Hamati Bernard and Lama, Tibet, 1937. Photo by Gegen Dorje Tharchin.
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The White Lama

In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park. Photo by Vikki Sloviter.
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In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park

Kulu Mele, "Celebrating Senegal," dancer/drummer Edward Smallwood performs a dance about the Balanta people. Photo by Jaci Downs.
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Ogun & the People

Tiona Nekkia McClodden, CLUB, 2018, installation image at Performance Space, New York. Photo by Maria Baranova.
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Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement III - The Triple Deities