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Guest Column by Sarah Gadsden | “You don’t know this yet, but life isn’t supposed to be like this”

(09/12/19 3:58am)

I remember waking up in my Hamilton Court apartment in a paralyzing state of despair. I could hear students partying outside my window on the street by the Blarney Stone — it was the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day. By contrast, I was so overcome with an inexplicable anxiety that I struggled to get out of bed. It was a familiar episode, but its familiarity did nothing to dull its sharp edges: I couldn’t escape the sense that life was fraught with pain and that I was somehow fundamentally broken.











Throwback: Jan. 20

(01/20/11 11:26am)

In 1985, the city of Philadelphia took Martin Luther King Day as an opportunity to rally against apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid, which lasted from 1948 until 1993, restricted the rights of “non-white” inhabitants, such as the right to vote, marry a white inhabitant and live in certain neighborhoods. Activist group The Martin Luther King Anti-Apartheid Coalition, which included over 200 community groups, led the rally in Center City. Click the image for a larger version.