Race & Ethnicity

Halloween is around the corner and guess what that means? Someone will metaphorically step in it with an insensitive or straight up racist costume.

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will decide whether the Neshaminy School District can continue calling some of its sports teams “The Redskins.”

Unsure if your decorations have racial overtones? Wondering what costumes are fair game? We've got you covered so you can have some fearful fun.

Colorful costumes, elaborate face painting and traditional Mexican dancing draw crowds to the Penn Museum for the Dia de los Muertos celebration.

A ruling expected Monday by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission could end a long-simmering local debate that’s made national headlines.

In 2015 Tamika Montgomery-Reeves became Delaware Chancery Court’s first black member. The governor just nominated her to break the race barrier on the Supreme Court.

The exhibit “30 Americans” — an ongoing, rotating show of high-profile black artists — has never before come to Philadelphia.

Following the fatal shooting of a woman in Texas, two organizations of black officers hosted a training for people of color in Philly on interacting with police.

Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts talks about how his years in prison lead him to poetry and criminal justice reform.

Patients with sickle-cell disease are living longer and a cure could be around the corner. Why doctors in Philadelphia worry those adult patients might be left behind.

With the 2020 census approaching, black community leaders are brushing up on the best ways to get people counted.

Black applicants to a prestigious research grant program at the National Institutes of Health are awarded funding at a significantly lower rate than their white peers.

A video, the second this month, emerged showing white Chester Township police officers arresting a black man for loitering in front of his own property.

Derrick H. Pitts has been named one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science.

After it was vandalized and damaged while on display during Monument Lab, Duane Linklater’s “In Perpetuity” was relit for Indigenous People’s Day.