They are their own monuments

In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop painted sky blue, Ms. Nandi’s home is decorated with pictures of civil rights heroes and political icons — Malcolm X, Queen Nefertiti, Lenin. Here, for some 20 years, Denise Muhammad, known by everyone as Ms Nandi, and her husband, Khalid, ran an afternoon penny candy store for the neighbourhood’s children out of their front living room, but it did much more than sell Tootsie Rolls.

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