Milan Parker is a journalist at Front Runner New Jersey, where she covers South Jersey news and stories affecting the Black community. Previously, she worked with Her Campus Media, covering entertainment and pop culture and interviewing first-time candidates running for office.
Milan’s written work has been published in Love Your Rebellion magazine, The Emory Wheel, and Voices and Visions journal, as well as her own personal website, a nostalgia blog shaped by a love for all things 90s web culture that ran for nine years on Neocities.
It’s the back to school season, and many students at Philadelphia public schools are back in the classroom interacting with their new teachers and classmates.
But if they head down the hall to check out a book from the school library, they might not be able to – because years of budget cuts and staffing changes have left most Philly public schools without a certified librarian.
Around the Block reporter Milan Parker reports that some community groups are stepping in to fill the gap.
