Race & Ethnicity

The college would go on to graduate the first Black and Native American women doctors.

The PHRC has long been haunted by allegations that it is ineffectual and that its leadership perpetuates the same kinds of discrimination it aims to combat.

Before Holocaust survivor Goldie Finkelstein passed away, middle school students from the KIPP school and Kellman Brown Academy memorialized her story.

A private collection of historic racist ephemera offers lessons on how we see ‘others’.

Assemblywoman Shanique Speight says that a second proposal will require similar training for medical providers in other practice areas

“Count Me In, a forum theatre collaboration between Ceiba and Just Act, depicts a struggle to explain the census’ importance to hard-to-count communities.

In recognition of Women’s History Month, Andrea Lawful-Sanders writes about the women who’ve inspired her journey.

A social media post by a white student-athlete from Central High School that uses racial slurs to refer to a Black opponent sent tremors across the internet in Philadelphia.

Last year, The New York Times published the 1619 Project with the goal of placing the narratives of enslaved Africans at the forefront of American history.

In Pennsylvania, “Black Voices for Trump Community Centers” will open in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Roberto Valdes, a queer man of color, writes about coming to know the term intersectionality and how it taught him to fully love and express himself.

Members of the Delaware chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women are uniting to address health care disparities among Black women.

Historians Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross highlight some of the remarkable black women who shaped America but who have been overlooked by history.

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures" has died.

For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau is giving people in the country’s two largest racial categories space to give more details about their origins.