On the door to her West Philadelphia apartment, Zarah Teachy has a sign that reads “I’m a Miracle.” Her story would bear that out. Zarah first met...
It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Hyacinth King. As a young person, she had a solid path ahead of her: She went from a private elite high school...
Emanuel Havens was low. It was 1990 and he was squatting in an abandoned North Philadelphia house, his body wracked by the pain of heroin withdrawal...