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Moving Drama of Former Slaves Makes Its World Premier at the Black Rep

The School of Arts and Sciences’ Heather Andrea Williams’ nonfiction history “Help Me to Find My People” has been adapted for the stage by playwright Nikkole Salter. The play, “Torn Asunder,” is being performed by the St. Louis Black Repertory.

Teaching the Holocaust to remember, to learn, and to bear witness

Courses concerning the Holocaust are offered across Penn. They are taught by survivors and the children of survivors, individuals with a personal connection, and researchers with an academic interest.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s time studying at Penn

A new book chronicles the student years of Martin Luther King Jr., and the time he spent taking secular classes at Penn.

Revisiting King's Final and Most Haunting Sermon

Dagmawi Woubshet of the School of Arts and Sciences analyzed the delivery and content of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final sermon, delivered to his home church exactly two months prior to his assassination. (Video)

There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label

Paul Wolff Mitchell of the School of Arts and Sciences, PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff and Yana Kamberov of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed race and genetics. Skulls from Samuel Morton collection in the Penn Museum are also featured.

Alumnus Doug Glanville returns home to teach class on sports and social justice

This semester, the former Philadelphia Phillie and ESPN analyst is teaching a course in the Annenberg School for Communication.

Penn Professors Sarah Guérin, Mary Caldwell, Ada Maria Kuskowski

A medieval confluence

Three newly-hired Penn assistant professors, all transplants to Philadelphia, found each other soon after they arrived and discovered that, although they were in different areas of study, they all focused on the Middle Ages, specifically 13th-century France.

March for Our Lives Awakens the Spirit of Student and Media Activism of the 1960s

Errol Salamon of the Annenberg School for Communication contextualizes the March for Our Lives in a long history of youth activism and journalism in the U.S.

Walking through a century of conflict in the Middle East

Students of Penn Global Seminars enjoy an alternative spring break by traveling to Jordan and Israel to learn about conflict, culture and global engagement.

The Montiers: An American Story

Gwnedolyn DuBois Shaw of the School of Arts and Sciences commented on the history of Philadelphia’s Montier family, who owned one of the earliest African-American homesteads and cemeteries in the U.S. (Video)

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