Race & Ethnicity

The Buena Regional Board of Education called an emergency meeting Wednesday night to discuss "personnel matters."

Family portraits found under a bed unraveled the story of an African-American family with a rich history and blood ties to the first mayor of Philadelphia.

Buena Regional High School wrester Andrew Johnson's brother says he believes a white wrestler under similar circumstances probably would not have been put in that situation.

A New Jersey high school wrestler had his dreadlocks cut off minutes before his match after a referee told him to lose the hairstyle or forfeit his bout.

46 percent of Philly's most dangerous roads are in poor areas mostly populated by people of color, according to an analysis of city crash data done by the Bicycle Coalition.

It's seen as an unavoidable step as the country's population of about 126 million rapidly ages and shrinks.

The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey Five-Year Estimate for 2013 through 2017 was released on Thursday.

Black and Hispanic Americans are less likely to smoke cigarettes than white Americans. Yet once they’ve started, they’re more likely to stay hooked.

In 2012, the percentage of female and black students starting medical school began a steady, albeit slow, increase.

As a dark-skinned black woman born into poverty, I know all too well the insidious ways that discrimination plays out in life.

People who experience discrimination firsthand struggle with hunger twice as often as others.

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered at the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood for WURD's second annual "Empowerment Experience."

Sixty-six Tuskegee Airmen died in combat, including 27 who were listed as MIA. Dickson was the first to be identified.

Throughout the ensuing decades, interracial relationships with black and white actors became more prevalent on television, spanning multiple genres.

The Garden State has moved one step closer to legalizing the personal use of marijuana, following votes by two key legislative committees.