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Race & Ethnicity

Protesters take over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

White urbanists: let’s use our privilege to advocate for anti-racist design

Urban anthropologist Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman argues that in order for cities to be “human-centered,” white urbanists need to actively be anti-racist.

6 years ago

Workers box up the statue of Christopher Columbus in Marconi Plaza. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Where should Marconi Plaza’s Columbus statue go? Philly officials taking suggestions

In recent weeks, the Christopher Columbus statue has been the site of confrontations. Philly officials seek to remove the statue and they want to hear from residents.

6 years ago

Artist Theo Ponchaveli paints a mural of the likeness of Ahmaud Arbery in Dallas, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Courts & Law

3 men indicted on murder charges in killing of Ahmaud Arbery

A Glynn County grand jury has indicted Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. on charges including malice and felony murder.

6 years ago

Colored Girls Museum
Money
Billy Penn

Two of Philly’s unique Black history institutions are fundraising to survive

The Colored Girls Museum and the Paul Robeson House have joined forces to raise $100,000.

6 years ago

In this June 9, 2020, file photo, Kevin Peterson, center, founder and executive director of the New Democracy Coalition, displays a placard showing Breonna Taylor as he addresses a rally in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Courts & Law

Police officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting fired

The no-knock search warrant that allows police to enter without first announcing their presence was recently banned by Louisville’s Metro Council.

6 years ago

Keith Russell, program manager of urban conservation at Audubon Pennsylvania, lowers his binoculars while conducting a breeding bird census, at Wissahickon Valley Park Friday, June 5, 2020 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
Community

Black bird watchers draw attention to racial issues outdoors

The Amy Cooper video in Central Park has brought attention to how the great outdoors can be far from great for Black people.

6 years ago

Penn Valley resident Andrea Gosfield, proposes anti-hate protocol after racist social media posts by Lower Merion School District students (Photo by Andrea Gosfield)
Community

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.

6 years ago

Listen 7:09
NYPD police officers watch demonstrators in Times Square on June 1, 2020, during a
NPR
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."

6 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.

6 years ago

(Harvey Finkle/The Notebook)
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.

6 years ago

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

6 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.

6 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.

6 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."

6 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.

6 years ago

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