Race & Ethnicity

Black people have always had to project themselves into the future because of the reality of their present. Even today, it takes some cognitive dissonance not to be enraged.

I am an educator because I choose to invest in the future of blackness.

I sometimes wish I could stop talking about race, just for a day. It gets exhausting. I shouldn’t have to defend my race on a daily basis.

It’s the responsibility of people like me to keep looking for people like him to make those chance encounters more than just shouting matches on the street.

The lasting legacy of 18 men who endured the hardships of the middle passage, slavery, and the Civil War to create a future that offered more opportunities than their past.

Civil disobedience is our obligation, not our right. If we do not stand up, ignorance wins. As long as we feel inequality, we cannot say that we live in a post-racial society.

Journalist and storyteller Sofiya Ballin says her identity series “Black History Untold” is more than a black history project.

One of Philadelphia’s lesser known visionaries just became a little more visible.

Nearly 50 people gathered at the West Philly Library on 52nd Street to talk about mental health in the black community.

Never has a Hollywood blockbuster film captured Africa and her people in such rich, layered, multitudinous ways.

Nasihah Thompson-King chose to stand up for her religious beliefs by taking a seat.

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"These disparities hurt all Philadelphians and likely impact my constituents disproportionately,” the Point Breeze councilman said.

It wasn’t that long ago that separate hospitals for black and white patients were the norm in America, but then all of that changed — and it changed quickly.