Race & Ethnicity

For years, Cheyney University's been on life support. Now, with a balanced budget & infusion of funds, America's first historically black university could be turning a corner.

Trump piled on Rep. Ilhan Omar, who immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia as a child. The crowd was egged on by several false explosive claims against her.

We discuss President Trump's racist attacks on Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley, all women of color, and the political and public response.

Next City looks at year one of the SEED Fellowship, which educates small-business owners on how to craft succession plans and convert to employee ownership.

Delaware’s Supreme Court has never had a black, Latino or Asian American member. Some want Gov. Carney to “correct the record’ when filling a looming vacancy.

Struggling to resolve racial tensions in South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg exclusively shared with NPR his "Douglass Plan," named for the famed abolitionist.

A former WHYY reporter reflects on her experience growing up as a black queer person in Flemington, New Jersey.

There are no national standards on how to teach about slavery, although it is often recommended as a topic in curriculum at the state and local levels.

We start the hour talking with U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean about her visit to migrant detentions centers and then, we discuss the role compassion plays in medicine.

Douglass proved he was not the typical Independence Day Antebellum orator when he spoke before an audience in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852.

We discuss Vice President Joe Biden's record on busing and desegregation in schools and whether the policy has achieved racial integration in schools across the country.

Cheyney University came out of the weekend with a pair of victories.

Through this year, we wanted to live out the call of journalist Krista Tippett to “speak together differently, in order to live together differently.”

The United Negro College Fund recently announced that it has awarded Cheyney University and Lincoln University, two of the nation’s oldest historically black universities.

Black and Latino leaders in New Jersey say Gov. Phil Murphy and legislative leaders are not doing enough to advance social justice in the state.