Race & Ethnicity

A statewide effort will explore the history of racial violence in Delaware, which allowed slavery despite remaining in the Union during the Civil War.

The Pa. Human Relations Commission says "Redskins" is a slur for Native Americans, but will allow a Bucks County school district to use the nickname for its sports teams.

Historian David Silverman tells the troubling history of the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of the Wampanoag.

Four years after it filed suit against the Neshaminy School District, a state commission has reached a decision regarding its use of a controversial Native American mascot.

Cheyney University will keep its accreditation, state leaders and university administrators announced in a letter to faculty, staff and students on Monday.

The classified documents lay out the Chinese government’s deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities even before they commit a crime.

Newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up a million or more Uighurs.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced a national plan to increase the federal government's role in reducing the number of murdered or missing Native Americans.

Princeton Theological Seminary wants to make up for its ties to slavery, but black students say the money it's offering is "a drop in the bucket."

When the U.S. Census Bureau counts residents of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods next year, a significant portion of their population will be missing: prisoners.

“Ghost River,” commissioned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, tells the story of the 1763 slaughter of Conestoga from the perspective of the tribe.

Their proposal comes more than a decade after the Garden State publicly apologized in 2008 for its role in the U.S. slave trade.

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.