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Race & Ethnicity

The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

Making the Workplace More Welcoming

Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are facing a backlash. What is the best way combat bias and stereotypes and make the workplace more cohesive.

Air Date: September 29, 2023 12:00 pm

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Artworks from the Barkley L. Hendricks exhibition are displayed on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023 at The Frick Madison in New York. Hendricks, who died in 2017, is the first artist of color to have a solo exhibit at the Frick. ''Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick'' is open now through Jan. 7, 2024.
Arts & Entertainment

Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick

Born in Philadelphia, Hendricks studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later attended Yale’s school of art.

6 days ago

Sculpture hanging in a building's lobby
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

Philly police recruitment triples, adds diversity after $1M marketing campaign focusing on Black and Latino communities

The new infusion of recruits won’t overcome the staffing shortage, but officials say it’s a start.

6 days ago

Gabriela Sánchez is executive director of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

‘Exactly what I need to be doing’: At 32, artist Gabriela Sánchez is leading the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

A Philly native, Gabriela Sánchez is focused on funding projects that advance social justice, equity and bilingualism.

1 week ago

Naloxone
Health

A new Pa. program is backing Black- and Indigenous-led groups to find solutions to the opioid crisis

The funding will go toward harm reduction-related projects, including strategies that address racial disparities in overdose deaths.

1 week ago

Steve H. Broadnax III is a playwright and resident director at People's Light in Malvern. His play, ''Bonez,'' will launch the theater company's Queerways PA, a program to develop new plays through community engagement
Arts & Entertainment

People’s Light launches queer playwriting program with a horror story

People’s Light will foster new plays written about the intersection of race and sexuality. It starts with “Bonez,” a blood-splattered horror play.

2 weeks ago

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A doctor takes a patient's temperature
Health

‘Justified Medical Mistrust’ docuseries looks to the past to change the future of clinical trials

The docuseries explores why racial diversity is key to clinical trials, while addressing a history of mistrust among Black Americans.

2 weeks ago

Listen 1:45
Cesar Viveros stands on a performance stage he helped dreate at the Cesar Andreu Iglesias Garden in Kensington.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

From Tejería to Philadelphia, how muralist César Viveros found a life of art

The native of Veracruz has created more than 40 works for Mural Arts, plus numerous fresco paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and altars.

2 weeks ago

''Staircases and Mountaintops: Ascending Beyond the Dream'' by Willis Nomo Humphrey at the Martin Luther King Jr. Rec Center on Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia.
Community
Billy Penn

‘Where do we go from here?’: A look at Black Philadelphians’ economic state, decades after the March on Washington

A new report measures the pace of progress towards economic parity since the famed civil rights demonstration.

2 weeks ago

Ahchipaptunhe of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and Cherokee, created large scale paintings inspired by the geometric designs on Lenape stamped baskets and pottery. His work is featured in ''Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories,'' at the Michener Museum
Arts & Entertainment

Contemporary Lenape artists offer their perspective on Lenape history

“Never Broken” at Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa., asked Indigenous artists to tell the history of the Lenape people.

3 weeks ago

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Performers from GRUFOLPAWA showcased Panamanian dance and music during the 39th Feria del Barrio. (Cory Sharber/WHYY)
Community

On a gloomy Sunday afternoon, Feria del Barrio brightens up Philly’s El Centro de Oro neighborhood

A coalition of organizations invited people from all over to El Centro de Oro on North 5th Street between Huntingdon and Somerset.

3 weeks ago

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A portrait of Pa. state Sen. Nikil Saval
Education

Pa. lawmakers want state to require Asian American and Pacific Islander education

State Sens. Maria Collett and Nikil Saval introduced a bill to include Asian American and Pacific Islander curricula in Pennsylvania schools.

3 weeks ago

Gov. Josh Shapiro at a bill signing ceremony
Politics & Policy

New Pa. rules mean more small diverse businesses can win government contracts

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order in Philadelphia that mandates state agencies to award more government contracts to small and diverse businesses.

4 weeks ago

People gather at a rally to support Ralph Yarl, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. Yarl, a Black teenager, was shot last week by a white homeowner when he mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers.
Courts & Law

Judge rules white man will stand trial for shooting Black teen Ralph Yarl, who went to wrong house

The case shocked the country and renewed national debates about gun policies and race in America.

1 month ago

Writer and activist Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad speaks at a press conference in front of Penn Museum on Thursday. Also present are City Council at-large candidate Nicolas O'Rourke, Mike Africa Jr., and Ramona Africa
Community
Billy Penn

Defendant in MOVE victim remains lawsuit says new photos show Penn curator withheld information from investigators

Newly surfaced photos show Janet Monge at Penn Museum in 2014 with remains of two children, not one, advocates say.

1 month ago

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