Race & Ethnicity

Studies that link genetic markers with disease focus largely on white European populations, and neglect other races and ethnicities.

Former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld fired on 17-year-old Antwon Rose II last summer outside Pittsburgh in a killing that sparked weeks of unrest.

Tamara Lanier says "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family and that Harvard is using those photos without permission and profiting from photos taken by a racist professor.

New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans’ health – and that some communities are affected more than others.

Former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld fatally shot Antwon Rose last summer, sparking local protests.

For people of color, "civility" is often a means of containing them, preventing social mobility and preserving the status quo.

The “Know Your Numbers” event coincided with release of a city report examining the health of black men and boys.

African American Chamber of Commerce board member Malcolm Ingram has been named interim president.

For doctors and patients of color, navigating a healthcare system which favors white people can be challenging and, sometimes, dangerous.

Over the last several years, Cheyney University has struggled to stay afloat. Now, it looks like it has a recovery plan. Will it survive and what's at stake for students?

I watched with interest as Democrats targeted freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—a Muslim who came to America as a Somalian refugee—as the new face of anti-Semitism.

Throughout his life, here and in his native country, Philip Jaisohn was a champion of Korean independence and social equality.

A local prevention-navigation supervisor says the drug “has not been marketed to women, to African-American women, as a priority.”

Students have spent two months preparing for their biggest performance of the year: ceili dancing for tens of thousands and a live TV audience.

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.