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Race & Ethnicity

Penn Valley resident Andrea Gosfield, proposes anti-hate protocol after racist social media posts by Lower Merion School District students (Photo by Andrea Gosfield)
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Racist social media posts inspire Lower Merion parent to call for anti-hate training in schools

Jennifer Lynn talks with Andrea Gosfield, who calls for a more racially equitable district after her son showed her racist social media posts by schoolmates.

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NYPD police officers watch demonstrators in Times Square on June 1, 2020, during a
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Courts & Law

Police researcher: Officers have similar biases regardless of race

Rashawn Ray says diversity helps, but that "officers, regardless of their race or gender, have similar implicit biases, particularly about Black people."

5 years ago

Johnson & Johnson has been one of a number of companies, such as L'Oreal, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, that sell these kinds of products. Here, a store keeper in Mumbai, India, is shown taking stock of beauty and whitening products.
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Community

Johnson & Johnson to stop selling 2 lines of skin-lightening products popular in Asia

The consumer products giant says they will no longer sell the Neutrogena Fine Fairness line and the Clean & Clear Fairness line.

5 years ago

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Education
The Notebook

POWER: Pa. state education funding is a textbook example of structural racism

Member of interfaith grassroots organization expresses support for Student Union calls on redirecting resources from security to support.

5 years ago

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace waits for the start of a Cup Series auto race in Martinsville, Va., on June 10.
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Community

Noose left in Black driver’s garage stall at NASCAR race track

The garage stall was assigned to Bubba Wallace, who had led the successful campaign to ban Confederate flags from NASCAR facilities and events.

5 years ago

Bible
Community

Black Catholics: Words not enough as church decries racism

Some Black Catholics are calling on church leaders to engage more energetically with youth at the forefront of the protest movement.

5 years ago

Statue of Confederate general toppled, set on fire
Community

Statues toppled throughout U.S. in protests against racism

Demonstrators have defaced and toppled statues and busts of former U.S. presidents, a Spanish missionary and Confederate figures as anti-racism protests continue in the U.S.

5 years ago

Protesters kneel for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in remembrance of George Floyd during a Black Lives Matter rally at Linconia Park in Bensalem, Pa. Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody by an officer who kneeled on his neck, sparking protests in cities and towns across the country. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

AP changes writing style to capitalize ‘b’ in Black

It conveys "an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa."

5 years ago

Nasir Bell (on the bullhorn) chants “I will breathe” at a protest march on Juneteenth. Bell, 22, started his organization, I Will Breathe, will other protesters he met during his arrest at a protest in Philadelphia on June 1. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community
The Philadelphia Experiment

This year Juneteenth is more meaningful

Juneteenth is more than a remembrance of the day in 1865 when 2000 Union troops marched into Galveston Texas, and told enslaved blacks they were free.

5 years ago

Gov. John Carney hosted an online conversation about Juneteenth with some of the state's black history leaders. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

Juneteenth did not mean freedom for Delaware slaves

Juneteenth celebrations mark word of the end of slavery arriving in Texas on June 19, 1865, but people enslaved in Delaware were still not freed until months later.

5 years ago

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Community
Billy Penn

PAFA tells faculty not to affiliate the school with Black Lives Matter movement

The administration says the message is not a damper on personal expression. Staff members say the policy is unevenly applied.

5 years ago

Chris Bowman holds up a fist demanding justice for Black people in the U.S. during a Juneteenth march in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Observing Juneteenth: A march to the Art Museum, a fashion show, ‘Jawnteenth’

Pa., N.J., Del. and 44 other states officially mark June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas first got news of the Emancipation Proclamation.

5 years ago

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on police use of force earlier this week. (Tom Williams/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

Klobuchar withdraws from VP consideration, says Biden should pick a woman of color

Klobuchar says she called Biden and told him, "I truly believe ... this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket."

5 years ago

From left to right: architect Chris Mulford, historic preservationist Maya Thomas, and preservation architect Dana Rice are working on a campaign to save the former home of Dox Thrash, a Black artist and printmaker. (Ryan Collerd)
PlanPhilly
Community

Black Futures Campaign is crowdfunding $100,000 to buy Dox Thrash house

The group behind the campaign wants to buy the Black artist’s house and transform it into a creative hub for North Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Portraits of Black fathers to light up Barnes Foundation this weekend

Portraits by West Philly photographer Ken McFarlane show the undersung love and strength of Black fathers.

5 years ago

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