At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ newest exhibition, Iranian American artists Shiva Ahmadi and Sheida Soleimani are using their work to address critical issues of our time.

Husband and wife co-owners of Palestinian American restaurant Renata’s Kitchen, Yasser and Kate Aiq, have had a challenging journey as restaurateurs surviving the pandemic.

Although Robeson is now remembered for his beautiful voice and his civil rights work in the United States, his travels in North Africa shaped the activist he would become.

Kenneth X. Robbins took a multiple-choice test at high school over sixty years ago, in which the correct answer to a question was “Muslims are Arabs.” He insisted that his teacher was wrong, that not all Muslims were Arabs, but he got in trouble with the school for pointing out this obvious fact.

Chronicling Resistance is a project based in occupied Lenapehoking (Philadelphia) aiming to tell the stories of marginalized groups through historical archives and relate them to today’s liberation efforts. The exhibition reveals buried truths and explores oral histories with an intersectional lens.