Race & Ethnicity

After Garner's death, the police department required all 36,000 officers to undergo three days of training, including classes focused on de-escalation.

The flap has exposed a disagreement between local activists and event organizers over how to engage people of different viewpoints.

Enslaved Africans were present in the region well before William Penn planted England’s flag here in 1681.

As the 400th anniversary of the Transatlantic Slave Trade approaches, religious leaders said the legacy of the early Black church must continue for complete freedom

What seems like disregard for law enforcement is really a defense mechanism.

The mass shootings in El Paso and Gilroy have horrified me. I won’t allow my fear to silence me. Instead, I will use it to resist and fight against white supremacy.

Los asesinatos en El Paso y Gilroy me han horrorizado. Pero no permitiré que mi miedo me silencie, lo utilice para resistir y luchar contra la supremacía blanca.

Tickets for weed spike in West Philadelphia and Center City, but exactly who gets them remains a mystery.

According to the most commonly cited figures from a 2007 UNESCO forum, 90% to 95% of sub-Saharan cultural artifacts are housed outside Africa.

Delbert Africa is one of nine MOVE members sentenced in the August 1978 shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer.

Run out of a house in Germantown, Black Soul Vintage is a passion project.

Jamell Spann and Elizabeth Vega protested in Ferguson, Mo., after the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Friends’ Central fired them after a 2017 controversy over a Palestinian speaker.

A white woman was recorded using racist language, cursing at and raising her middle finger toward a Black woman at Sesame Place in Bucks County on Monday.

Theatre in the X staged a world premiere of “Beast of Nubia.”