Sadie T.M. Alexander, caught in the crossfire of a war to control America’s past (Inquirer, 8/14/2025)

Penn Carey Law School's pause of a scholarship honoring a pioneering Black woman highlights a campaign to erase America's history.

Christopher R. Rogers knows how hard it is to stop the past from collapsing — especially when it comes to the rich tapestry of African American history. For nearly four years, the Haverford College visiting assistant professor of writing has been deeply involved with the floorboard-by-floorboard campaign to save a once-dilapidated home in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood that launched a Black cultural and political empire in the late 19th and 20th centuries.