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WHYY By Joyce Mosley stands in Eden Cemetery on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Mosely believes she has nearly 100 relatives buried at Eden. (Ryan Collerd for PlanPhilly) Google “Eden Cemetery” and you’re bound to encounter an impressive list of influential Black Philadelphians laid to rest there. Absalom Jones, Marian Anderson, Octavius Catto, Julian Abele, Frances Harper, and William Still are a few of the well-known figures who come up. But Eden’s story is larger than its “notables.” I...

Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: Gabe Hopkins. Time was a little, um, weird in 2020. January feels like eons ago. And more than in almost any other year, it feels like stories that were major topics of conversation one day just—poof!—evaporated the next. To offer you a trip down memory lane, we searched back in our archives (sometimes not that far back!) to resurface stories from this year that felt like they must have happened long before 2020—...