Philadelphia to install statue honoring Penn alum, first Black woman to receive Ph.D. in economics

The City of Philadelphia will honor Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander — the first Black woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in economics and the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School — with a statue at Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Philadelphia Municipal Services Building.

Perry World House hosts ‘Autocracy in the World’ event on authoritarianism, role of the media

Ben-Ghiat is “a historian of authoritarianism" and testified before the House Jan. 6 Committee on alleged attempts made by the administration of 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump to stifle freedom in the country. 

Author spotlights Black nurses of tuberculosis epidemic at Barbara Bates Center book talk

The story of the Black nurses who stepped up to treat the tuberculosis epidemic in New York City at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island is dictated in Maria Smilios’ new book.