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Last month, Temple University’s Board of Trustees welcomed two newly appointed members to its governing body. These appointments represent the latest of a number of recent changes to the board’s membership. Earlier this fall, the board welcomed four additional newly appointed members and also reintroduced two returning members. Kenneth Scott and Robert Taylor are the newest
By The former home of artist Dox Thrash is in a state of disrepair at the corner of Cecil B. Moore Avenue and 24th Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Maya Thomas began her work advocating to preserve the Dox Thrash House, named after the Black painter and draftsman that lived there, five years ago when she was studying historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas became enamored with the house, and the Black art scene that once thrived there, while she was living nearby and studying the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s renewal plan for the Sharswood area. With two other grad student...