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Jodi Lawerence, an administrator at the Sophiatown Heritage Centre, tells visitors about Sophiatown's history during a tour of the museum's rooms. PHOTO: SHAILA BHAYROO/THE HAWK

Sophiatown museum shares history of struggle, resistance

Maximus Fisher ’25, Staff Writer August 4, 2024

Sophiatown, South Africa – Behind a white cement wall splashed with a colorful mural, a brick house on Toby Street in the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown tells the story of resilience.  The house,...

Selvan Naidoo, director and curator of the 1860 Heritage Centre in Durban, discovered evidence that his family had been among the first indentured laborers from India who were transported by the British colonial government to South Africa in the 1860s. PHOTO: KILEY O'BRIEN '25/THE HAWK

Durban museum highlights history of indentured labor

Maximilian Murphy '26, Special to the Hawk July 29, 2024

Durban, South Africa – When Selvan Naidoo takes visitors on a tour of the 1860 Heritage Centre in Durban, which he directs, he recounts a story about searching archives for information about his ancestors.  In...

The Colored Girls Museum opened in 2015 at Vashti DuBois' former residence in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. PHOTO: AZIZAT OSINAIKE

‘No place like this’: Colored Girls Museum opens exhibition on Black girlhood

Azizat Osinaike March 31, 2023

The Center of Inclusion and Diversity (CID) partnered with The Colored Girls Museum on Feb. 23 to offer St. Joe’s students an exclusive tour of the museum’s latest exhibition, “Sit a Spell.”  Vashti...

Gen. George C. Meade and his horse Old Baldy also have a statue in his dedication in Fairmount Park. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Local Civil War museum moves locations after six decades

Rachel Kwok April 27, 2022

A local Civil War museum, which bills itself as “the only museum in the city of Philadelphia dedicated to the history of the Civil War,” is moving to a new home this spring after more than six decades...

Carrie Anne Shimborski, left, and Shasta Bady, right, watch an interactive exhibit at The Women’s Mobile Museum on Sept. 22 at the Juniata Park Boys & Girls Club. Photos by Erin Breen '19.

Who is art for?

Natalie Drum September 25, 2018

Women’s Mobile Museum showcases women in art “Who is art for?” That is the question that 10 women from the Philadelphia area attempted to answer in a year-long apprenticeship and artist residency...

Students from Philadelphia schools crowd Dilworth Park for CollegeFest (photo by James McCloskey, Jr. '20).

Five hours of free fun

James McCloskey, Jr. September 11, 2017

St. Joe's students attend CollegeFest Philly The 2017 Campus Philly CollegeFest, held on Sept. 9, gathered hundreds of college students together for a day of fun in Center City Philadelphia. Each year,...

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