A Remarkable Woman: Marilyn Russell
“I grew up on cheesesteaks. I say yo”. In an interview with Marilyn Russell, morning host for WOGL in Philadelphia, these were about the first words out of her mouth....
“I grew up on cheesesteaks. I say yo”. In an interview with Marilyn Russell, morning host for WOGL in Philadelphia, these were about the first words out of her mouth....
There’s a giant sucking sound that involuntarily came out of my body, “Thwamp!” It didn’t come out of the blue, it was trying to get out for weeks, maybe even...
I remember the moment I became conscious after my teenage tonsillectomy. There were two things in quick succession: I became aware of the darkness behind my eyelids, and then I...
At the National Liberty Museum last December, Tarek El-Messidi noted that since September 11, 2001, 11 people have been killed by Muslim extremists on U.S. soil, compared to about 60...
At a December discussion at WHYY entitled “Breaking the Myth of Meritocracy,” panel speaker Andre Perry quipped that he has a solution for closing the test score gap between black...
Living in East Passyunk, when I was invited to North Camden for dinner at a tiny Vietnamese place, I was skeptical. If I wanted great pho, why not just walk...
Living in the city, my children are exposed to events I never encountered growing up in a North Jersey suburb. In the 1980s it was a different world, where mass...
So your family is toxic, huh? Mine too. It almost seems like dumb luck, of all the families in southeastern Pennsylvania, why must I be blessed with the most pervasive...
Firms founded by women make up 38 percent of privately-held companies in the U.S., but just two percent of American venture capital (VC) financing goes to women founders. Wharton School...