Her food and environmental collective, Land Based Jawns, hopes to plant seeds for community growers and spawn gardens on residential blocks in the city.There are a lot of seeds that led to Land Based Jawns.One was planted as its founder, Ashley Gripper, read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Gripper, a Philly native who’d migrated to New England for a doctoral program in environmental health at Harvard, picked up the book in December 2019 when her pastor had the church read it together as a congregation.The science fiction novel, first published in 1993, leaps forward to California in...…Her food and environmental collective, Land Based Jawns, hopes to plant seeds for community growers and spawn gardens on residential blocks in the city.There are a lot of seeds that led to Land Based Jawns.One was planted as its founder, Ashley Gripper, read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Gripper, a Philly native who’d migrated to New England for a doctoral program in environmental health at Harvard, picked up the book in December 2019 when her pastor had the church read it together as a congregation.The science fiction novel, first published in 1993, leaps forward to California in...WW…

Zalika U. Ibaorimi, a West Oak Lane native and doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, has developed her theory citing Black cultural theorists.If you have not been called a jawn, this theory is not really about you.Its creator, Zalika U. Ibaorimi, a West Oak Lane native and a doctoral candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, is most interested in how the word functions within Black Philadelphia.Jawn is a term that’s been widely appropriated, even beyond Philadelphia. (Note: Research shows that jawn is a Philadelphia mutation...…Zalika U. Ibaorimi, a West Oak Lane native and doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, has developed her theory citing Black cultural theorists.If you have not been called a jawn, this theory is not really about you.Its creator, Zalika U. Ibaorimi, a West Oak Lane native and a doctoral candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, is most interested in how the word functions within Black Philadelphia.Jawn is a term that’s been widely appropriated, even beyond Philadelphia. (Note: Research shows that jawn is a Philadelphia mutation...WW…

“It’s so much rapid death so quickly,” said Gregory Burrell, who for the past 20 years has been the owner of Terry Funeral Home in West Philadelphia.For 81 years, generations of families have come to say their goodbyes here. They’ve shared words of comfort, cried freely, and sung hymns to salve the pain. The chapel inside Terry Funeral Home has held them all.Elmer Lynn had planned to memorialize his 70-year-old wife, Mildred, here, too. She died on Easter of COVID-19 at Lankenau Hospital.Seated at an antique table in the casket selection room, a weary Lynn explained to Gregory Burrell, the...…“It’s so much rapid death so quickly,” said Gregory Burrell, who for the past 20 years has been the owner of Terry Funeral Home in West Philadelphia.For 81 years, generations of families have come to say their goodbyes here. They’ve shared words of comfort, cried freely, and sung hymns to salve the pain. The chapel inside Terry Funeral Home has held them all.Elmer Lynn had planned to memorialize his 70-year-old wife, Mildred, here, too. She died on Easter of COVID-19 at Lankenau Hospital.Seated at an antique table in the casket selection room, a weary Lynn explained to Gregory Burrell, the...WW…