Bravery in the Neighborhood: Recent Episodes
Hilary Hamilton
5th and 6th graders at Science Leadership Academy Middle School created a walking tour of historical sites of bravery in their school's neighborhood. These are the podcasts from that tour.
Al-Bustan seeds were originally created for Hazami Sayed’s two sons but then it turned into something for the whole community to share. This specific community was for Arabic language, art, and culture.
Philadelphia General hospital opened in 1733 and it served a wide variety of people, and in particular people who suffered from mental illness or who didn’t have a lot of money. It was the first hospital of it’s kind and help make our city a leader in medicine.
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http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/
ENIAC is the first computer in history and it was made at the University of Pennsylvania. It was created to help win World War II. It continues to shape our world today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
UPenn, which stands for the University of Pennsylvania, is a large university (college) in Philadelphia. It was founded by Benjamin Franklin. Today, it has lots of students, faculty, and staff that are connected.
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https://ware.house.upenn.edu/front
Philadanco is an African-American dance school created by Joan Myers Brown who was a dancer herself since the age of six years old. Philadanco has been open since 1970. In Philadanco you will do jazz and ballet. Philadanco is located at 9 N Preston street.
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Meshell Ndegeoc
The immigration center is a place that helps people who just came to America Immigrants, They help with getting them homes, food, jobs, and paperwork.
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https://twitter.com/phillyoia
The VA Medical center is a hospital specifically for veterans. They are only for veterans and it's all completely free they even a mural to show appreciation.
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https://twitter.com/muralarts/status/1060594308955414531
The Building Brotherhood is a program that was made to encourage men of color to help each other. It was made by President Obama in 2012 and brought to Philly in 2015.
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https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/building-brotherhood/
The Ronald Mc Donald house helps families in need. They help families whose kids are in the hospital.They are a great help to our community.
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https://www.philarmh.org/ways-to-give/10ways/
The Lenni Lenape are a Native American tribe that lived in Philadelphia and have had a complicated past. After living on this land for a long time, they were pushed out by the Europeans and the diseases they brought. Now the population of the Lenape is small, but some still live in the area.
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https://www.legendsofamerica.com/lenape-delaware-tribe/
The IWSWS was a home for elderly women only. It was founded by Sarah Ralston, and it had a series of strict requirements for women wishing to enter, such as “too poor” and “probably rebellious”. Sarah Ralston was also discriminating against people or other color or race. So if you were a person of color then you can forget about it. This eventually evolved into a really nice nursing home right across the street from SLAMS.
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https://hiddencityphila.org/2017/05/ralston-center-celebrates-200-years-of-senior-care/
Horizon House is an organization that treats mental health issues and mental disabilities through a specialized community-based program It was founded in 1952 by Marcella Schoeger to combat the mistreatment the mentally ill faced from mental institutions.
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https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Horizon-House/reviews
The ICA is a non-profit institute that shows contemporary art. It was founded in 1963 by Holmes Perkins, and is located at 118 South 36th Street. It shows off art from people of all different cultural backgrounds. They also try to show off art from unrecognized artists, sometimes getting those artists famous.
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https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/attractions/institute-of-contemporary-art/
American Bandstand was a popular T.V. show, with teenagers and a host named Dick Clark. American Bandstand began on October 7th, 1952 and ended on October 7th, 1989. American Bandstand changed the music industry forever.
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https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/highlight/WFIL.htm
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology is a research facility that had created many life-saving vaccines. It has accomplished many things over the years and is currently working on a cure for cancer.
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Jeremiah Taylor
The Penn Relays is a very important race in Philadelphia. About 15,000 people run in it each year. People come from all over the world just to race.
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WikiMedia Commons
CHOP is a hospital dedicated to children and takes care of them no matter what. CHOP also teaches people how to be pediatricians. People come from all around the world to go to CHOP.
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http://ed.wikipediat.org/wiki/Children%27s_Hospital_of_Philadelphia
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African American pilots that gave a pathway for more black pilots. They helped win the world war and even had a mural made for them which is on 39th & market street.The Tuskegee Airmen faced the challenge even though very few people believed in them.
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https://www.nps.gov.articles.tuskegeeairmen.htm
30th Street Station is the largest train station in Philadelphia. It was built over Broad Street Station because broad Street Station was too small for our growing city. It can take you in all four directions so you can travel all over the U.S.It has a lot of other purposes it has a lot of office space and shops now for you to explore.
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King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0
The Penn Museum houses the most historical artifacts in Philly from all over the world. It has helped our community to learn more about history.
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Creator:Photo by E. Mencher for GPMTC
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In 1970 Drexel hosted its first Environmental Teach-In. A teach-in is about people getting together in a group in order to learn something connected to current events. Drexel doing this has lead to Earth Day and more education about the environment.
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https://ansp.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/stories/taking-care-of-our-planet/