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  >> Tess Thackara, The New York Times  Published: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Updated: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Deborah Willis's photographs in "Black Women and Work," installed in one of the parks run by the Village of Arts and Humanities, in Philadelphia, April 28, 2021. In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop painted sky blue, Ms. Nandi’s home is decorated with pictures of civil rights heroes and political icons — Malcolm X, Queen Nefertiti, Lenin. Here, for some 20 years, Denise Muhammad, known by everyone as Ms Nandi, and her husband, Khalid, ...

They Are Their Own Monuments In two North Philadelphia neighborhoods, many hands create homegrown art tributes to local heroes. “On the Day They Come Home,” a sculpture by Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist in the exhibition “Staying Power,” featuring five women who are fighting to end life sentences in Pennsylvania. The women are Tamika Bell, Paulette Carrington, Starr Granger, Ivy Johnson and Yvonne Newkirk.Credit...Kriston Jae Bethel for The New York Times By Tess Thackara May 3, 2021 PHILADELPHIA — In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop ...