Race & Ethnicity
New HBO series debuts at Blackstar Film Festival in Philly
Terence Nance, a New York experimental filmmaker with a long history with the Blackstar Film Festival in Philadelphia, chose the festival to launch his new HBO series.
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Listen 2:49Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history
It comes after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry on a hotel guest’s room folio last week.
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Young boys admit to hanging doll at Weccacoe Playground
Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at a South Philly playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground.
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Ruth Naomi Floyd, ‘Frederick Douglass Jazz Works,’ and our need for free critical artists
Floyd could have been this generation’s Ella or Mahalia. But she has taken the A Train on a track less traveled — and Douglass is her latest companion on that journey.
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For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of ‘halal’
While conducting research for our book, “Halal Food: A History,” we found that more and more Muslims are looking at ethical and health considerations
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Blackstar Film Festival, in its seventh year, keeps expanding the mainstream
The festival showcases films that may be difficult to find in mainstream theaters.
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Listen 5:06Cheyney University launches two institutes as part of school’s reinvention
After facing several years of falling enrollment and financial instability, Cheyney University is looking to remake itself by playing to its strengths.
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‘Barracoon’ spurs a long-overdue conversation about last known slave-ship survivor
"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:01NewsWorks Tonight, July 30, 2018
Air Date: July 30, 2018
Listen 22:44To make black lives matter, protect those lives from the womb to the tomb
We are all responsible for standing up for the sanctity of black lives. Because while so many of us are doing great work to sustain black lives, all of us have to do more.
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NewsWorks Tonight, July 26, 2018
Air Date: July 26, 2018
Listen 22:33A 1918 ‘race war’ and its ties to Philadelphia’s present
Stop and frisk. Changing demographics. A fishy police shooting. Inside a 1918 race riot in Grays Ferry and its parallels to the present.
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Listen 6:34Suspended N.J. radio hosts apologize for calling state attorney general ‘turban man’
A New Jersey radio station has taken two hosts off the air after they called the state’s attorney general, a practicing Sikh, “turban man.”
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Listen 3:24Sports apparel company with Philly tie accused of racial discrimination
The federal complaint accuses the company of harassing and retaliating against a longtime employee because he is black — and favoring white employees over black employees.
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