Race & Ethnicity

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.

Union Fire Company has struggled to serve its Latino community in the past, but new efforts to recruit Spanish-speakers are making progress.

The ACLU’s client was detained, then placed in ICE custody.

We discuss last night's Democratic debate in Las Vegas and how the six candidates fared just days before the Nevada caucuses.

Constance Clayton has been collecting African American art for 30 years. She recently gave much of her collection to PAFA in Philadelphia.

Two brothers found themselves at the center of a racist incident in their rural Pa. town. Their response complicates traditional narratives around race and 2020 politics.

A new Archbishop returns to Philadelphia and speaks of “hope” for Roman Catholics.

Before sculpture’s June dedication, Philly is invited to get to know the undersung 19th-century advocate for slavery’s abolition and women’s right to vote.

Here's one thing historians know to be true about Harriet Wilson: Some indomitable part of her spirit allowed her to survive a life on the margins of American society.

Pennsylvania is buying ads and preparing to award grants to nonprofit organizations, grassroots groups, to ensure every resident is counted in the 2020 census.

The gathering at Temple is totally free and open to the public.

String Band Division leaders say they will be keeping a watchful eye on everyone next year, to prevent another appearance of blackface.

Bar hop, but make it Black-owned.

Through updated research methods, the new survey found a 60% increase in the Jewish population in the five-county Philadelphia region.

Michael Bloomberg is distancing himself from a 2015 speech in which the former New York City mayor defended aggressive police tactics in minority neighborhoods.