Race & Ethnicity

State officials are trying again, this time with a grant program targeted at the smallest and most vulnerable operations.

"Naming it the John Lewis Voting Rights Act — that is a fine tribute," former President Barack Obama said. "But John wouldn't want us to stop there."

Steve Pirritano shared his opinion in response to a Facebook post from a conservative author.

A recent scientific review showed the effects of climate change can worsen the systemic racism Black parents already face.

In a meeting Tuesday, only one board member committed to anti-racism efforts. Others have resigned in solidarity with their former director.

Hospitals can turn COVID-19 tests results around in hours. The Black Doctors Consortium says that should be offered to communities most affected by the virus.

The plan is the fourth and final pillar of his "Build Back Better" agenda for economic recovery, crafted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

"It wasn't really until high school that I started seeing some of the ways in which racism was influencing my own experience."

Six U.S. mayors asked Congress to pass legislation to block the Trump administration from deploying federal law enforcement to cities without their officials' consent.

Many officials and public figures have expressed dismay and disappointment in the Philly chapter president’s actions, but the NAACP’s leadership has yet to issue a statement.

A group of teachers outlined a list of specific demands for equity in city schools.

The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a mix of struggles and breakthroughs. It has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may change.

He will be remembered with services that begin this weekend in his home state of Alabama before moving to the U.S. Capitol, where he will lie in state.

Cynthia Baldwin, the second Black woman to serve on the Pa. Supreme Court, says Chief Justice Thomas Saylor treated her unfairly in disciplinary proceedings.

The vote marks the second-to-last procedural hurdle for Mayor Jim Kenney’s proposal to remove the Marconi Plaza icon.