
Race & Ethnicity
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.
5 years ago
Listen 7:09Police 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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