Race & Ethnicity

Writing has given me an outlet for my emotions. It organized my thoughts and helped me find my way out of a very dark place. Getting published made me feel equal.

The music filled me with joy; the music made me feel free, even when the lyrics were speaking to conditions of struggle.

WHYY celebrates Black History Month with Philly.com by publishing essays for their series  ...

President Donald Trump recently met with ten sheriffs from across the country to hear their public safety concerns. The first person he t ...

A Pennsylvania state judge has ruled that police illegally stopped a 22-year-old unarmed black man in East Germantown in 2015 before a do ...

WHYY celebrates Black History Month with Philly.com by publishing essays for their series ...

Well-intentioned people have been looking for ways to help those who are feeling the weight of racism, islamophobia, misogyny, and other oppressions.

It is ironic that the 30th anniversary of “In the Life, ...

Many of us who want to make a rescue animal part of the family have experienced the flip-side to the problem of abandoned pets: foster gr ...

The word “sanctuary” conjures images of safety, freedom, and protection. It’s something the City of Brotherly Love has ...

On April 1, 2016, the centuries-old struggle for the rights of indigenous Americans witnessed a new dawn. On t ...

On a mild Tuesday night eight years and one week ago, I took a road trip from Detroit to Chicago. I was a 29-year-old graduate student ...

I spent last week in Washington, D.C., a place that, depending on which way you swing, is either a roiling swamp of dysfunction or a glea ...

Recently, I was honored to receive the Charlene J. Arcila Lifetime Achievement Award from GALAEI, a ...

I graduated from a West Philadelphia high school that’s a charter school. Now in college, I also work at a charter school that’s focu ...