Race & Ethnicity

A Philadelphia production team released an online documentary on Shudder, tracking a century of black representation in the bloodiest of genres.

The 1984 photo has stirred a national political furor and reopened the long history of bigotry in American medicine.

How many people who are currently flaying Ralph Northam engaged in routine racist behavior when they were younger?

“Mundane Futures” assembles African-American art and artifacts as it imagines a radically banal tomorrow. The exhibit continues through March 31 at Penn.

The clock seems to be ticking for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.

“Black art has a sense of soul,” Jamal Parker said. “You can tell it comes from an authentic place.”

The incident came on the first day of Black History Month and as Virginians prepare for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Jamestown.

Warren's call to the Cherokee Nation marks a split from how she's dealt with this political stumble to date, as she prepares to kick off her presidential campaign.

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia says he has no recollection of appearing in a racist yearbook photo, a day after acknowledging he was one of two people in the photo.

A new study finds that Philadelphia court stenographers often make errors when transcribing the testimony of African Americans.

The life of artist Romare Bearden, best known for his collage work, is chronicled by Philadelphia native Mary Schmidt Campbell.

WHYY reporter Trenae Nuri talked with Feminista Jones about her new book, "Reclaiming Our Space."

The shutdown left a painful toll for African-Americans who make up nearly 20 percent of the federal workforce and historically have been on the low end of the pay scale.

Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women with darker skin, researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto say.

Why has the Neshaminy School District in Bucks County refused to give up a decades-old nickname for its sports teams that many consider to be a racial slur?