Race & Ethnicity

African American writers and illustrators took the top Newbery and Caldecott awards at the annual library conference.

With the debt burden lifted, the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is one step closer to adding programming to attract younger people to the house and museum.

“The majority of this is not being spent on the type of laser-focused programs that are shown to work,” Rhynhart said. “This is why we thought that transparency was needed.”

The leader of the comic division says more than just two Mummers tried to wear blackface this year.

Year after year, according to the reports, troopers were roughly two to three times more likely to search black or Hispanic drivers than white drivers.

This initiative is the latest in a growing nationwide movement to address the diversity gap in entrepreneurship.

He joined fellow civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore to protest the North Philly school’s segregation.

Panelists at WHYY and NewCORE’s “Conversations of King” event consider the “mountains” of relativism, materialism, segregation and violence in 2020.

Hugh Hayden’s new installation at Princeton’s Bainbridge House explores slavery and the origins of America through the 18th century home’s own history.

The Camden County-based Unity Choir has become a way to defy what many feel is mounting hatred towards the Black and Jewish communities.

"I've only been bald in the privacy of my home and in the company of close friends," Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts says at the beginning of an emotional video.

A Black Voices for Trump event drew upwards of 60 people of color to a North Philly church.

The IABD returns to the city where it started for the 50th anniversary of Philadanco.

Gwen Eagleson lived in the segregated South in the 1960s, which is when she listened to MLK speak and watched as her parents endured racial discrimination.

Students of color in Pa. are far less likely than their white peers to have access to small classes, certified teachers and advanced coursework, according to two studies.