How 3,000 Desecrated Black Graves Were Found, and Saved, in South Philly Philadelphia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery was about to be dug up for a sewer. By Michael Coard   7/29/2013 What if 3,000 Italian or Irish or Jewish or Polish men, women and children from one of the most pivotal periods of American history were buried […]

A version of this article was originally published in 2012. On May 13, 1985 at 5:20 p.m., a blue and white Pennsylvania State Police helicopter took off from the command post’s flight pad at 63rd and Walnut, flew a few times over 6221 Osage Avenue, and then hovered 60 feet above the two-story house in the […]