Race & Ethnicity

Marijuana-related arrests in New Jersey jumped about 35% over a four-year period ending in 2017, according to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.

On Saturday, the stretch of North Broad Street between Oxford Street and Girard Avenue will be renamed “Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan Way” in his honor.

Here’s half a dozen places to get your dance on.

A developer’s son called Erwin Church a racial slur and punched him a year ago, but charges were dismissed. Church is filing a civil suit.

Across Black Twitter and other social media platforms, a small but vocal segment of Black people are imploring other African Americans not to support the film. Why?

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing two interpretations of a Reconstruction-era law created to protect against racial discrimination.

The Supreme Court is taking up the Trump administration’s plan to end legal protections that shield 660,000 immigrants from deportation.

More than 200 years ago, in 1811, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a march towards the city.

An Action Leaders Summit in South Philly focused on how to promote and provide information about the 2020 Census in at-risk neighborhoods and communities.

A Center for Non-Profits report says New Jersey’s nonprofits lack racial diversity and while women are running more and more organizations, they lag in pay compared to males.

The student-produced documentary, “Sankofa,” won a Student Academy Award in October. It was one of just 15 student films in the world to win the award.

It’s a milestone in the decades-long transformation from industrial, white working-class roots to a majority Latinx city trying to redefine itself.

Historian Richard Bell tells the story of the "reverse underground railroad" and of five black boys who were kidnapped 1825 Philadelphia and sold into slavery in the south.

The only African American director in the agency alleges she has been treated differently than her peers and touched without her consent.

Produced and written by Black women, the film hits theaters on Nov. 1