Greg Johnson

Depictions of people facing death have been used in news coverage since before the advent of photography. The earliest were illustrations, engravings and woodcuts, such as drawings of President Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.

 Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Having grown up in Philadelphia and being a product of the black church, Chad D

In his 2008 book, “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North,” released on the same day Barack Obama was elected the first African-American president of the United States, Thomas Sugrue says Obama appeared in only one sentence because he was not yet a central figure in civil rights.

Opened in the early 1950s, Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center rests on 700 acres in pastoral Chester County and offers some of the coun

Asthma morbidity is disproportionately high in low-income, inner-city communities. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma, and African-American women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups.

Opened since July, the Robert A.

Martha Farah says that in “young sciences” like psychology and neuroscience, “you can never be on intellectual autopilot.”

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Many Penn freshmen are getting what may be their first taste of independence, living miles or even oceans away from home.